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Enclosure

Newtown (Ferrard By.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Newtown, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Ferrard By.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.75820, -6.26795
SMR number
LH022-059----

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David 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 on a fairly level landscape that was once demesne land of Newtown House. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 45m NE-SW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) defined by a wide fosse (Wth c. 3m) is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. The fosse can be seen only from NE-S-W but the rest of the perimeter is probably incorporated into a boundary with woodland bordering the old demesne. The narrower internal cropmark of a linear ditch is inside the fosse as straight sections at SE (L c. 22m) and S (L c. 20m). It was first reported by Matthew Mullen-Reynolds.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 21 January 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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