Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Draghanstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Draghanstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85713, -6.26726
- SMR number
- LH019-039----
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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
Located on the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on an Aerial Premium image (2013-18). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Aerial Premium (2013-18)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.