Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Port, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Port
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84174, -6.27107
- SMR number
- LH019-028001-
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 on a slight W-E ridge. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a single, continuous fosse feature is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). There is a rectangular annexe (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by single fosse features attached to the NW, and there is smaller paddock (dims c. 15m x c. 15m) defined by single ditch features in the E corner of the annexe. It 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.