Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dales, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dales
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79846, -6.27916
- SMR number
- LH022-061----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on a slight E-W ridge. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 38m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by single fosses or drains is visible on a satellite image from Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is also visible on OSI images (1995) and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.