Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Johnstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85649, -6.28803
- SMR number
- LH019-034----
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 the broad summit of a WNW-ESE ridge. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 60m) defined by a single continuous fosse that has a gap (Wth c. 12m) at S is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is in the NE corner of a field that is depicted on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is also visible on Digital Globe (2011-13), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.