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Ringfort - rath

Millockstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Millockstown, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Millockstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.82748, -6.52155
SMR number
LH017-052001-

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David 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

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: 21 June 2012

Sub-circular raised area enclosed by much-degraded earthen bank, well defined on ESE-SE (Wth 9m, H 1.5m) but elsewhere so degraded as to form a scarped platform (int. dims. 62m N-S, 58m E-W, H 3m). Slight traces of fosse at base of scarp from SE-S-W. The scarp has modern drystone facing from SE-S-W, but MacIvor (CLAJ 1952, 253) reports the finding of bones behind the facing on the SW, and also the finding of a 'chimney' beneath a stone, when the ringfort was being ploughed.

References

MacIvor D. 1952 Townland Survey of County Louth in Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society (Vol. 12) 253-275.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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