Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Walshestown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80312, -6.30123
- SMR number
- LH022-051----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the tip of a low W-S spur. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a continuous fosse feature (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible only on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It was first reported by Mathew Mullen-Reynolds.
See the attached aerial view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.