Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Salterstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Salterstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87348, -6.30142
- SMR number
- LH016-009001-
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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
Situated on a slight S-facing slope. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995), but the perimeter is absent ESE-S-SW. It is associated with the field system (LH016-009002-), and a road (Wth c. 5m) defined by two ditch features meanders W of the enclosure (L c. 50m). The church (LH016-003001-) is c. 75m to the N, and it was probably contemporary with it. The enclosure was first identified by Ivor Kenny.
See the attached enhanced view from Map Genie (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.