Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Painestown (ferrard By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Painestown (ferrard By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82815, -6.28530
- SMR number
- LH019-030----
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 towards the S end of a low N-S ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single, substantial fosse feature (Wth c. 5m) is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). It is also partially visible on the Bing images (c. 2012) and was first identified by Ivor Kenny. It is probably a rath.
See the attached enhanced view from Map Genie (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.