Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Knockagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.03557, -6.48248
- SMR number
- LH003-041----
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
Located at E end of a high ridge running E-W, with the ground falling away sharply on the N, E and S sides. At the W an earth and stone bank with traces of a shallow external fosse cuts off the interior from the rest of the ridge. There is a slight bank extending around other areas of the scarp, with a drop of up to 4.5m down to the interior.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.