Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Maine, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maine
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87894, -6.36323
- SMR number
- LH015-046----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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 level landscape with the meandering estuary of the NW-SE River Glyde c. 520m to the NE and a meander of the SW-NE River Dee c. 600m to the S. It is c. 900m W of where both rivers meet before entering the sea. An oval enclosure (dims c. 63m N-S; c. 58m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on OSI aerial photographs (1995), which were first identified by Ivor Kenny. It is also faintly visible on Bing images (c. 2012) and is probably a rath.
See the attached enhanced view from OSAP (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.