Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Haggardstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haggardstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96210, -6.37456
- SMR number
- LH012-054001-
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
Discovered during archaeological test trenching (Excavation Licence 94E0197). A circular area (max. diam. 45m) enclosed by a ditch (Wth 5.5m; D 2.2m) with a possible entrance on the E side. Finds from the ditch included animal bones and mussel shells. A possible souterrain (LH012-054002-) located beneath. (Campbell 1995a, 64-65)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.