Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Williamstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Williamstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88491, -6.40607
- SMR number
- LH015-051----
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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 gently undulating landscape. This feature is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) with a central mound on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’, and as a circular hachured feature (diam. of base c. 45m) with a crescent-shaped feature (dims c. 45m ENE-WSW; c. 15m NNW-SSE) attached to the N on the 1907 edition. It is still extant and was first reported by Barry Fitzgibbon of the Forest Service.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Knights Templarsunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.