Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Rath Lower, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath Lower
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.00745, -6.18088
- SMR number
- LH008-099004-
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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
Partially excavated in advance of a housing development (Excavation Licence: 02E0530). A series of stone walls (Wth 0.65m - 1.2m) were uncovered representing the remains of a building covering an area of 18m by 14m. The excavator suggests that this may be the building depicted by Wright in 1758. The walls are preserved in-situ on the site. (Clutterbuck, R. 2004, 384-5).
References:
Wright, T. 1758 Louthiana. London.
Clutterbuck, R. 2004 Rath Lower Medieval grange. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 384-5 (No. 1360). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 6 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.