Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Purcellstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Purcellstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82972, -6.56243
- SMR number
- LH017-125----
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
The remains of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 37m) are visible as a crop-mark on an aerial photograph (Google). (pers. comm. T. Condit).
LH017-125----_01.jpg Crop-mark visible on Google aerial photograph (12 July 2013).
LH017-125----_02.jpg Close-up of the crop-mark.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 6 August 2015
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.