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Ringfort - rath

Carn More, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carn More, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carn More
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.03612, -6.40787
SMR number
LH004-067001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 November 2011

Revised by: Claire Breen

Semi-circular cropmark representing NE half of a ringfort visible on AP (CUCAP, BDH 3). Partially excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence 03E0867). Circular area (diam. 30m) surrounded by a ditch (max Wth. 2.7m; D 1m) with causewayed entrance at W. Severely truncated with few internal features remaining. Finds included over 200 sherds of souterrain ware pottery which were recovered from the ditch. Associated souterrain (LH004-067002-). (Delaney 2006, 340)

Reference:

Delaney S. (2006) 'Carn More, Faughart Neolithic; Ringfort and Souterrain' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (1272). Bray. Wordwell

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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