Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Reaghstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reaghstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Liscalga
- Coordinates
- 53.90361, -6.61457
- SMR number
- LH013-013001-
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
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
Situated on top of an outcrop rise. Sub-circular platform (int. dims. 35m E-W, 30m N-S, H 1.5m) enclosed by much-degraded earthen bank now reduced to a scarp. The bank still rises to a height of 0.7m above the interior at the NE. Ancient entrance at SE represented by a depression in the scarp. Possible souterrain (LH013-013002-) in interior.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.