Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cordoogan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cordoogan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76893, -6.45982
- SMR number
- LH020-025----
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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 on a gentle S-facing slope in the valley of an E-W section of the meandering Mattock River, with the stream c. 150m to the S. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (int. dims c. 41m NW-SE; c. 36m NE-SW) defined by a slight fosse separated by the parch mark of a bank (Wth c. 3-4m) from an outer wider fosse (ext. diam. c. 53m NW-SE; c. 46m NE-SW) is visible only on Apple Maps. There is an entrance (Wth c. 3m) through the outer fosse but not the inner one at SE. It was first reported by Ian Lennon.
See the attached view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.