Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Beltichburne, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beltichburne
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79799, -6.54396
- SMR number
- LH020-024----
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 fairly steep SW-facing slope with a small SE-NW stream c. 120m to the S. A circular grass-covered enclosure (diam. c. 50m) is visible on Google Earth (16/05/2018, 29/06/20121, 04/03/2022). It is also visible on other aerial images (OSAP 1995, 2005), and it appears to be defined by an earthen bank. It is probably a rath and was first reported by Emmet Byrnes.
See the attached enhanced views from Google Earth (_01) (2018), (_03) (2022)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 25 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.