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Ringfort - rath

Glebe (Dundalk Upper By., Dundalk Par.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Glebe (Dundalk Upper By., Dundalk Par.), 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
Glebe (Dundalk Upper By., Dundalk Par.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.02513, -6.40056
SMR number
LH007-193----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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

Situated on a slight NE-SW ridge in a low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature was recorded in a pasture field in July 2018 using a drone-mounted camera. It has an entrance gap at E. It is also visible on the OSI aerial images (1995). Rath (LH007-192----) is c. 80m to the WSW, and the burials (LH007-187----) were discovered between the two.

See the attached image taken from the E, courtesy of Mathew Kelly

Compiled by Michael Moore based on details provided by Mathew Kelly and Steve McGlade.

Date of upload: 9 August, 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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