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
- 53.93415, -6.60018
- SMR number
- LH011-143----
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 gentle S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018). It is also visible on OSAP (1995) and was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 November 2019
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.