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
- 53.75108, -6.26756
- SMR number
- LH022-053----
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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 W-facing slope of a low N-S ridge on land that was once demesne land of Newtown House. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse feature N-E-S is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. The perimeter runs into deeper soil and a less mature crop S-W-N. It was reported separately by Matthew Mullen-Reynolds and Anthony Murphy at about the same time.
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Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.