Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumbilla, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbilla
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.06066, -6.46638
- SMR number
- LH003-013001-
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
Sub-circular area (int. dims. 36.5m NW-SE, 29m NE-SW) enclosed by two banks with intervening V-shaped fosse. Inner bank (Wth 8.8m, H 0.5m internally, 4m externally), fosse (Wth 5m) and outer bank (Wth 7.2m, H 2m internally, 1.7m externally). Entrance gaps (Wth 2.4m) in both banks and traces of causeway across fosse at S. Possible souterrain (LH003-013002-) in NE quadrant of interior, to S of which is a modern concrete-lined rectangular hole. Some 8m W of centre is a large stone slab of uncertain significance.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.