Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Nicholastown (ardee By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nicholastown (ardee By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93029, -6.61046
- SMR number
- LH010-011----
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 a gently undulating landscape. This is a sub-circular area (int. dims 48m E-W, 44.5m N-S) bounded by a very slight scarp. The monument is extensively ploughed down. It is visible as a cropmark of a circular area defined by two fosse features on OSI images (1995).
See the attached view from OSI (1995)
The above 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: 17 July 2007
Revised: 15 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.