Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rogerstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rogerstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88213, -6.62805
- SMR number
- LH013-034----
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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 gentle SW-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55-60m) defined by a fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018). An inner fosse feature is intermittently visible SE-W suggesting it had an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m). It was probably a rath although the old Rogerstown House was c. 150m to the NW and the enclosure (LH013-033----) is c. 150m to the NE. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.