Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Roche (dundalk Upr By; Roche Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roche (dundalk Upr By; Roche Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04647, -6.48720
- SMR number
- LH003-029002-
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
To the E of Roche castle (LH003-029001-), and divided from it by a wide rock-cut fosse, is a large plateau on which is thought to have been sited a medieval borough. Evidence of the borough is slight, but a weekly market and an annual eight-day fair had been established by 1284 and the borough is specifically mentioned in 1332 (Bradley and King 1985, 52-3). The remains of a boundary wall and tower at the NW corner, as well as a number of rectangular features within, can still be seen.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 10 November 2011
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Louth. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.