Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Milltown (ferrard By., Termonfeckin Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (ferrard By., Termonfeckin Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77549, -6.31374
- SMR number
- LH021-028003-
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
Three enclosures (LH021-028001-, LH021-028002-, LH021-028003-) indicated by cropmarks. Cropmarks including sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 47m N-S, c. 40m E-W) enclosed by ditch. Outer ditch from NNW-N-E-S-SSW, showing on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYM 67). Adjoining enclosure at S is a crescent-shaped annexe (max. dims. c. 45m E-W, c. 35m N-S) bounded by a single ditch. In NW corner of sub-circular enclosure is a cropmark of a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 15m).
The above description is derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.