Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Rathcoole, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoole
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82903, -6.45953
- SMR number
- LH017-063----
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
According to information gathered in 1967 by Peter Danaher (ASI) this field was called the 'Mount field' and was also known as the 'moat'. It might be the location of the 'moat' recorded for this townland in the OS Letters (CLAJ 1923, 200). This is also the approximate location of an earthwork shown on Taylor and Skinner's map (1777). The field is a long, low ridge beside a stream. There was no visible trace of an earthwork in 1967.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 21 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.