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
- 53.85095, -6.28704
- SMR number
- LH019-027----
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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 on a level landscape with a small NW-SE stream c. 150m to the N. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 35-40m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature with straight sides at N and W is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). There is an entrance gap at SE and the straight W side is parallel with and c. 5m distant from a NNE-SSW field bank. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny, and is also visible on Google Earth (2013).
See the attached enhanced view from Map Genie (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.