Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Roestown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roestown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.83668, -6.50284
- SMR number
- LH017-032----
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
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Situated on a natural terrace on the N side of a high ridge. Roughly circular, round-topped mound (diam. 17m, H 1.5m). Partly quarried into on WNW. The ring of trees and encircling modern stone wall are part of landscaping. MacIvor (CLAJ 1950, 122-4) described the site as a ringfort, owing to the field name 'Liss field'.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.