Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Smarmore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Smarmore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80978, -6.56427
- SMR number
- LH017-071----
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
Situated on a rise at the NW foothills of the NE-SW Corracon – White Mountain ridge and probably outside the demesne of Smarmore Castle c. 500m to the N. A circular hachured feature is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was described in 1966 (SMR file) as a circular area (diam. c. 41.5m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.04m). It is visible as a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse on OSI images (1995) as noted by Frank Prendergast.
See the attached view from OSI images (1995)
The above 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: 17 July 2007
Amended: 9 March, 2023
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.