Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tankardsrock, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardsrock
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.00828, -6.45276
- SMR number
- LH007-030----
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
Oval platform area (int. dims. c. 39m E-W, 33m N-S) enclosed by a much degraded earthen bank, now reduced to a scarp (H 2.3-3m). The scarp has traces of a drystone facing, but it is unclear whether this is ancient. Rock-cut fosse (Wth 5.5m, D 1.3m) at base of platform at W-NW. Probable ancient entrance at E represented by a depression (Wth 3.4m) in the scarp.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.