Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aclint, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aclint
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicaetd
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92257, -6.63653
- SMR number
- LH010-023----
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 on a N-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible only on Google Earth (29/06/2018), but the fosse appears to be absent S-W. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.