Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Parsonstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parsonstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81239, -6.28931
- SMR number
- LH019-040----
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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 rise in a low-lying landscape with a small SW-NE stream c. 50m to the NW. The cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 23m N-S; c. 21m E-W) defined by a fosse is visible only on an Aerial Premium image (2013-18). An outer fosse c. 4-6m distant is visible W-N-E and this fosse is attached to the inner fosse at either end, forming a small annexe. The cropmarks of two ditches extend E (L c. 70m) and ESE (L c. 50m) from the enclosure at E where there might be an entrance, diverging as they proceed rather like an avenue. The monument was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced views from Aerial Premium (2013-18)
_1 general
_2 close-up
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.