Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74120, -6.39921
- SMR number
- LH024-077----
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 an E-facing slope. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a single continuous fosse (Wth c. 1-2m) and with the straight side at SW is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. In the vicinity are the cropmarks of drains associated with field banks that are largely marked on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and the curved portion of the perimeter at NE is represented as a curved field bank and townland boundary with Hill of Rath townland to the N on the same map. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cremated remainsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.