Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rath (dundlak Lwr By; Carlingford Par.) , County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath (dundlak Lwr By; Carlingford Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.00441, -6.18857
- SMR number
- LH008-065----
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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
Circular area (int. diam. c. 33m) enclosed by two degraded banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (Wth 9m, H 1m internally, 4m externally) now reduced to a scarp in places. Fosse (Wth 4m) and earth and stone outer bank (Wth 4m, H 0.7m internally, 1m externally) except on the W side where the slope of the ridge is very steep. Ancient entrance gap in both banks with causeway at E. Sub-rectangular annexe (int. dims 29m E-W, 26m N-S) adjoining outer bank at NNE enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.8m, H 0.7m internally, 0.8m externally). Possibly the site referred to as 'two circles' by Isaac Butler in his journal of 1744 (CLAJ 1922, 102).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.