Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- 53.82917, -6.47330
- SMR number
- LH017-132----
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
Located at the E tip of a W-E spur. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 39m E-W; c. 36m N-S) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 3-5m) is only visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.