Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullagharlin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagharlin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97104, -6.40114
- SMR number
- LH012-118----
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 towards the NW end of a NW-SE ridge and at its highest point which was known as Chapel Hill (OS 1835 6-inch map) because of the Roman Catholic chapel at the roadside c. 100m to the N. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a single fosse feature was recorded by Joseph McMahon on a drone-mounted camera in August 2018. It is also visible as a cropmark on the OSI aerial images (1995).
See the attached view from the NE, courtesy of Joseph McMahon.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.