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Ringfort - rath

Wyanstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Wyanstown, 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
Wyanstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.85291, -6.29554
SMR number
LH019-026----

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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

Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope with a small NW-SE stream c. 100m to the NE. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 55m NNE-SSW; c. 35-40m WNW-ESSE) defined by a complete and substantial ditch feature (Wth c. 3-5m) is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). There is a smaller ditch visible outside it S-W-NNW, which would have been on the outer side of a field bank, and in the interior a smaller D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE)is visible defined by a lighter fosse feature, but the straight side at NW is formed by the cropmark of a drain which was associated with a field bank that is marked on the 25-inch map (1907). There is no visible entrance gap in the fosse. The enclosure was first identified by Ivor Kenny.

See the attached view from Map Genie (1995)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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