Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shanlis, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanlis
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83108, -6.58873
- SMR number
- LH017-131----
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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
Located on the W-facing slope at the W end of the low E-W ridge of Screedoge Hill, with an E-W section of the Corkey River c. 110m to the S. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 43m N-S; c. 30m) E-W defined by straight sections of fosses or drains is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2021). It is also visible on OSI images (1995), and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (29/06/2020)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.