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Ringfort - rath

Yellowbatter, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Yellowbatter, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Final unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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 Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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