Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Nicholastown (ferrard By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nicholastown (ferrard By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82549, -6.27538
- SMR number
- LH019-017----
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 in a low-lying landscape. Traces of a ring-barrow showing as cropmark of two concentric ditches (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 45m) are visible on aerial photograph (ACAP) (Buckley 1987, 20-1). It is also visible on OSI aerial images (1995).
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the '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 revision: 27 Octob3r 2015
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
Buckley, V.M. 1986a Archaeological Inventory of County Louth. Dublin. The Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.