Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickavallan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickavallan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.93654, -6.63464
- SMR number
- LH010-008----
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
Oval area (int. dims. 58m NE-SW, 41.5m NW-SE) enclosed by much-degraded earthen bank (c. Wth 5m, H 1.8m externally) now almost levelled to the interior with possible entrance gap (Wth 2m) at WNW. External drystone masonry facing on the bank suggests that the bank has been incorporated in the modern field system. No visible trace of fosse. Interior of site badly disturbed by cultivation ridges.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.