Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanlis, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanlis
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83384, -6.59196
- SMR number
- LH017-127----
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 gentle W-facing slope c. 100m E of a S-N section of the Corkey River, which forms the boundary with Co. Meath. The cropmark of an enclosure defined by two fosse features (int. diam. c. 25m; ext. diam. c. 50m) is visible on Google Earth images (2013) and also on Bing images (c. 2013). The monument is also partially visible on OSi images (1995, 2000), and was first identified by Tom Condit. It is also visible on Google Earth (29/06/2021).
See the attached view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 May, 2017
Amended: 11 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.