Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybailie, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybailie
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87702, -6.53129
- SMR number
- LH014-094----
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
Situated in a slight dip in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 35) defined by a single continuous fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It was first reported by Anthony Murphy, and it is also visible on OSI Images (2000, 2005, 2018) and Digitalglobe (2013).
See the attached image from Google Earth (12/07/2013)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.