Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardpatrick, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardpatrick
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94310, -6.52156
- SMR number
- LH011-148----
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
Located at the S edge of a plateau and at the crest of a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse with a possible entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at NE is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It has an internal circular feature (diam. c. 10m) defined by a fosse, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.