Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Carrickastuck, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickastuck
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.03533, -6.52426
- SMR number
- LH003-026----
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
Situated on top of a slight natural rise in rolling grassland. Ring-barrow (max. dims. 24.8m by 20.8m), comprising a flat, slightly oval-shaped interior (diam. 14m NE-SW) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2.2m) on S to W and N to NE. External bank (Wth 3.2m) visible only from S-W-NE. A modern field fence truncates the fosse and bank from S-E-NE. The site is referred to as a 'small mount' by Stubbs (CLAJ 1909, 129).
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.