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Situated on the summit and sides of a broad hill that overlooks a W-E section of the River Boyne downriver from Drogheda. A gradiometer survey (23R0172) has identified a complex enclosure (LH024-094----) defined by three roughly concentric features that are likely to be fosses (Murphy 2023). The third, outer, enclosure is within a larger D-shaped area (dims c. 110m E-W; c. 90m N-S), the ditch of which arises from the fosse of the third enclosure at N and swings around to the E and SE before extending off to the W where it is probably morphing into a field system with field drains extending from it to the S. Some lighter field drains are also attached to the inner subcircular enclosure making smaller plots (dims c. 30m x c. 20m). Some other field drains are attached to the largest enclosure at NE and SE but do not extend very far, and lighter, straighter N-S and E-W drain features further E are probably from an unmapped post-medieval system. The enclosures and field drains are cut by a NNW-SSE service road to the Drogheda Cement Factory. (Murphy 2023)
See the attached grey-scale plan from Murphy (2023, fig. 7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 4 May 2023
Murphy, D. 2023 Report on Geophysical Survey at Newtown Rd., Newtownstalaban, Co. Loth. Licence: 23R0172. Unpublished interim Report, ACSU
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