Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rogerstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rogerstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88175, -6.63635
- SMR number
- LH013-032----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a hillock in an undulating landscape. A semi-circular wood is depicted on the historical maps. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It is also visible on Map Genie (1999-2003), and was first identified by Tom Condit.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 March, 2017
Amended: 7 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.