Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Crowmartin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crowmartin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.89339, -6.66419
- SMR number
- LH013-018----
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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
Roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 48m) enclosed by remains of bank (Wth 8m, H 1.1m internally, 1.6m externally) visible only from SE-S-W-WNW. No visible trace of fosse or entrance.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.