Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ash Little, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ash Little
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.98407, -6.52059
- SMR number
- LH006-071001-
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
Sub-circular area (int. dims. 31m N-S, 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth c. 6.5m, H 1m internally, 2.6m externally) with external U-shaped fosse (Wth 5m, D 0.9m) and earthen counterscarp bank (Wth 3m, H 1.7m internally, 0.9m externally). Gaps in both banks at SE owing to modern disturbance. No visible trace of original entrance or of the 'subterranean passage' (LH006-071002-) referred to by Stubbs. (CLAJ 1908, 32)
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.