
What is recorded here
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
Three enclosures (LH021-028001-, LH021-028002-, LH021-028003-) indicated by cropmarks. Cropmarks including sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 47m N-S, c. 40m E-W) enclosed by ditch. Outer ditch from NNW-N-E-S-SSW, showing on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYM 67). Adjoining enclosure at S is a crescent-shaped annexe (max. dims. c. 45m E-W, c. 35m N-S) bounded by a single ditch. In NW corner of sub-circular enclosure is a cropmark of a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 15m).
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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