Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Mountbagnall, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountbagnall
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Promontory Fort or Mota Gormflaith
- Coordinates
- 53.98666, -6.22353
- SMR number
- LH008-085----
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
Situated in commanding position with old river-bed to E and Dundalk Bay to S. Triangular neck of land (max. dims. 55m by 31m, H 18m above sea-level) cut off by much-degraded bank and fosse (Wth 9.5m, D 2m) from the landward side. A small V-shaped fosse (Wth 5m, D 2m) cut off the apex of the site on the seaward side. The interior of the site has been bulldozed level (Field Survey, 1966).
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
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.