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Ringfort - rath

Hurlstone, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Hurlstone, 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
Hurlstone
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.82135, -6.57326
SMR number
LH017-118----

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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)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · 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

Located towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of the NE-SW Hurlstone ridge. An aerial photograph (GB91.ED.11) from July 1991 shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) defined by a fosse, with faint traces of an incomplete, narrow inner fosse. Much of the interior appears to have been quarried. It is also visible on OSI images (1995) and more faintly on Google Earth 29/06/2021), as noted by Frank Prendergast.

See the attached image from OSI (1995)

Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Date of upload: 23 December 2010
Amended: 9 March 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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