Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lowrath North, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowrath North
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.94267, -6.55936
- SMR number
- LH011-058----
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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
Scarped sub-circular platform (int. dims. 60m E-W, 50m N-S, c. 1.2m) on low natural rise surrounded by low-lying swampy ground on all sides except W, where ground rises appreciably. A modern wall extends N-S just outside the platform on the W, thus producing a fosse-like feature between the scarp and platform. Interior of site badly mutilated by construction of cattle pound and silage pit.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.