Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletowncooley, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletowncooley
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.00832, -6.22705
- SMR number
- LH008-049002-
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. 26.5m NE-SW, 24m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 4m, H 0.5m internally, 1.4m externally) with both an internal and external boulder revetment at N. On the NE the bank is now incorporated into the modern field system, and from the E-S-SW a modern ditch runs between the bank and modern field fence. Probable original entrance at W represented by a gap (Wth 2m). No visible fosse. Oval area W of interior divided from remainder by low stone-revetted scarp.
Nearby in the register
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.