Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Maine, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maine
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87736, -6.36870
- SMR number
- LH015-048----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a rise in a low-lying fairly level landscape in the estuary of the NW-SE Glyde River, which is c. 900m to the NE and a mender of the W-E River Dee, which is c. 600m to the SE. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at SE is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995) and there is a bush or scrub at the centre. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny and it may represent drainage around rock-outcrop.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from OSAP (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.