Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liberties of Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liberties of Carlingford
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.05782, -6.20885
- SMR number
- LH005-020001-
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
Roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 22m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 4m, H 0.3m-0.9m) with traces of external boulder facing. Ancient entrance gap (Wth 4m) at WNW. At least one hut site (LH005-020002-) (diam. 5.5m) and possibly a second (LH005-020003-) to S of centre of the interior.
A modern trackway extends inside the bank from NW-SE in the SW quadrant and cuts across the bank at S and W.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.