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Ringfort - rath

Ballinteskin, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinteskin, 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
Ballinteskin
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.06853, -6.26716
SMR number
LH005-037001-

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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 July 2007

Situated high on NW side of E-W ridge, overlooking Carlingford Lough to NNW. The site is built on a levelled shelf, which has been cut back into the slope of the ridge. The ringfort consists of a circular area (int. diam. 22m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2-2.5m, H 1m) with a possible original entrance gap (Wth 2m) at WNW. Traces of an external fosse on S and W. Hut site (LH005-037002-) (int. diams. 6.5m E-W, 6m N-S) in SSE of interior of ringfort, slightly removed from the enclosing bank. The walls of the hut site are of earth and stone (Wth c. 1m, H c. 0.5-0.6m) and there is a possible entrance gap at the SSE. The hut site has been modified in recent times to make a booley hut. There are traces of a possible old field system (LH005-037003-) c. 50m to N and NE of the site.

Nearby in the register

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

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