Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.04832, -6.37493
- SMR number
- LH004-039----
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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 beside a stream in a low-lying hollow. An artificially raised circular earth and stone platform (diam. 20m) enclosed at base by fosse (Wth 6.1m, D 0.7m) with slight traces of external bank. Causeway (Wth 3m) across fosse at SE. Along the upper edge of the platform are the remains of a stone wall now partly collapsed downslope. In the NE quadrant of the interior is an oval depression (L 5.5m, Wth 2.5m, D 0.4m) of uncertain significance.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.