Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Hill of Rath, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hill of Rath
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74461, -6.40849
- SMR number
- LH024-076002-
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 on the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE spur. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 11m) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 1m) is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. Ring-ditch (LH024-076001-) is c. 30m to the NW. The features were first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view (lower) from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.