Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Yellowbatter, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Yellowbatter
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73217, -6.34943
- SMR number
- LH024-092----
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 a gentle S-facing slope. A gradiometer survey (21R0044) of about 15.5 ha (c. 40 acres) identified a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 34m) defined by a single fosse that has an entrance gap (Wth c. 3m) at E. The enclosure is faintly visible on OSI Aerial Premium images (2013-18). The enclosure was archaeologically tested (18E0550 ext.) by Donald Murphy (2021) when the rath ditch (Wth 2.52m; D 0.9m) was encountered and elven possible pits were identified in the interior.
See the attached image from Murphy and Breen (2021, fig. 5)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 April 2022
References
Murphy, Donald 2021 Archaeological Assessment at Ballymakenny Road, Yellowbatter, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Licence: 18E0550. Final unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Murphy, Donald and Breen, R. 2021 Geophysical Survey of a site at Ballymakenny Rd., Yellowbatter, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Licence: 21R0044. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.