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
- 53.72975, -6.39154
- SMR number
- LH024-089----
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 at the tip of a small, low W-E spur. It overlooks a curve to the E of a small N-S stream that is c. 170-200m distant. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). This is within an outer oval enclosure (dims c. 60m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE) defined by single fosse, but the perimeters of both appear to coincide NW-N.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 August, 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.