Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Commons (carlingford Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (carlingford Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.03328, -6.19602
- SMR number
- LH005-035001-
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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
D-shaped area (int. dims. 29m NE-SW, 23m NW-SE) enclosed by peat-covered bank (Wth 4m, H 0.5m internally, 0.8m externally) with traces of internal and external stone facing. Entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at SE, with remains of possible lean-to structure abutting inner face of bank at E. Interior divided in two by low peat-covered bank running NW-SE. On N side of dividing bank are conjoined circular hut platforms (LH005-035002-).
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.