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Ringfort - rath

Shortstone East, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Shortstone East, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Shortstone East
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.03954, -6.50141
SMR number
LH003-027----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 the summit of a long, high ridge extending WNW-ESE, the site consists of a circular area (int. diam. 24m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m, H 0.35m). A low embankment outside the circular area forms a rectangular enclosure (dims. 30m NNE-SSW, 28m WNW-ESE). This embankment is 0.75m-1m above an external fosse (Wth 2m). The NNE side of the site is interfered with by the building of a modern field fence immediately outside it. (CUCAP, APG 77)

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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