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Enclosure

Funshog, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Funshog, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Funshog
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.81725, -6.50044
SMR number
LH017-119----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 at the W end of a low E-W ridge Aerial photograph (GB91.DC.29 & 30) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure; a cropmark of a ring-ditch (LH017-120----) is located immediately to the west. It is also visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021).

See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)

Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Date of upload: 23 December 2010
Amended: 16 May 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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