Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newrath (louth By., Dromiskin Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newrath (louth By., Dromiskin Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91689, -6.43310
- SMR number
- LH015-050----
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
Located at the summit of a low E-W ridge. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m NE-SW) defined by a single slight fosse feature S-N-NE is visible on Google Earth (18/06/2017) with some drains from a field system attached to the SW. The rath is visible more clearly on OSAP (2017), although still very faint. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
Attached image from OSAP (2017).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.