Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cruisetown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruisetown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81209, -6.27467
- SMR number
- LH019-033----
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 on a slight E-facing slope with the confluence of a N-S canalised stream with a W-E one c. 30m to the SE. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It is also visible on OSI images (1995, 2000), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.