Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05257, -6.39410
- SMR number
- LH004-022001-
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
Sub-circular area (int. dims. 27m N-S, 22.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 3.5m, H 0.5m internally, 1.1m externally) with internal boulder facing at the NE quadrant. Widening of bank at W to form a platform with remains of stone structure, possibly a lime kiln (LH004-022001-). Possible ancient entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) at NW, now obscured by modern field walls. From the N side of this gap a curvilinear earth and stone bank extends S to the W of the perimeter bank. The visible signature of the monument had been removed by 1995 (OSAP).
The above 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: 17 July 2007
Amended: 28 October 2020
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.