Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown (ferrard By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (ferrard By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75259, -6.26612
- SMR number
- LH022-052002-
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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 a low N-S ridge on land that was once demesne land of Newtown House. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (LH022-052001-) is within a larger rectangular enclosure with curved corners that is only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. The larger enclosure (dims c. 50m NNW-SSE; c. 50m ENE-WSW) is defined by slight fosses that are not visible at the E end of the N side or the W end of the S side but at E it curves outward to include the ring-ditch (LH022-052003-) within the enclosure. The incomplete rectangular enclosure (LH022-052001-) is in the interior and it is cut by the cropmark of an ENE-WSW field drain. The complex was reported separately by Anthony Murphy and Matthew Mullen-Reynolds around the same time.
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Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.