Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Castletowncooley, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletowncooley
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.01605, -6.22382
- SMR number
- LH008-044----
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
Situated on wide terrace on the lower S slopes of the Cooley Mountains, with ravine immediately to E of site. The fort has a D shaped interior (max. dims. 31m N-S, 23.5m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse on all sides except to E where the site is bounded by the ravine. The interior of the site slopes slightly from N to S and is covered by cultivation ridges which have destroyed any surface internal features.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.