Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71830, -6.37431
- SMR number
- LH024-012004-
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
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Located on side of slope on N side of River Boyne. Trial trenching in 1985 in advance of building revealed an enclosure (max. diam. c. 60m E-W) defined by a ditch (Wth 2.5m, D 1.4m). This enclosure is associated with the souterrain(s) (LH024-012001- and LH024-012002-) and cemetery (LH024-012003-) discovered in 1983.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.