Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Port, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Port
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83002, -6.26840
- SMR number
- LH019-015001-
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
Circular enclosure with attached curvilinear field system (LH019-015002-) to N, E and W showing as parch-mark on aerial photograph (ACAP; GB89.E.02). (Buckley 1987, 290-3)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 12 July 2012
Revised by: Claire Breen
References
Buckley V. M. 1987a Newly discovered cropmarks near Port, Co. Louth. Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 21, 290-3
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.