Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Reynoldstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reynoldstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80441, -6.28135
- SMR number
- LH019-041----
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 the spine and the E-facing slope of a W-E spur. The cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 28m N-S; c. 25m E-W) is defined by a fosse that is separated from an outer fosse (ext. diam. c. 40m E-W) is visible only on Digital Goble (2011-13). The outer fosse is absent NNW-NE where a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 30m plus), perhaps part of a field system, is attached. The outer fosse is also missing SE-SW, and the cropmark of a N-S field drain, probably post-medieval in date, extends N and S at the W edge, touching the outer fosse tangentially. The monument was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe (2013-18)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.