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
- 53.86593, -6.30232
- SMR number
- LH016-011----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a N-facing slope. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (int. dims c. 68m E-W; c. 46m N-S) defined by two closely-spaced and regular fosses or ditches (max. ext. dims c. 80m E-W; c. 60m N-S) is visible only on a Digital Globe (2011-13) image. The ditches are slightly cut by a NE-SW field bank at NW and the ditches are so regularly parallel that it may represent an unmapped copse defined by a field bank with internal and external drains. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe (2011-13)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.