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Barrow - unclassified

Belpatrick, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Belpatrick, 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
Belpatrick
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
53.80405, -6.51676
SMR number
LH017-077----

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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: 17 July 2007

Situated on the summit of a long, narrow E-W ridge. Ring-barrow (overall diam. 33m) comprising a level, circular platform (diam. 16m, H 0.6m above base of fosse) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2.8-3.4m) and external bank (Wth 4.5-7m, H 1.3m above base of fosse). The bank is incorporated in the modern field fence on the N and the fosse is recut at this point. The site is recorded as a 'fort' in 1836 in the OS Letters (CLAJ 1918, 273).

Nearby in the register

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

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