Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Callystown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callystown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79169, -6.27892
- SMR number
- LH022-050----
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 towards the bottom of a steep N-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a sinlge fosse feature with a wide entrance gap (Wth c. 10m) at E is visible on the OSI aerial images (1995). It is also visible as a faint feature on Bing images (c. 2012), and it was first identified by Ivor Kenny.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 2 January, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.