Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shortstone East, County Louth, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.