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
- 53.75820, -6.26795
- SMR number
- LH022-059----
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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 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
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.