What is recorded here
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. 38m NW-SE, 32m NE-SW). Known locally as a 'fort' and a 'lios'.
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Promontory fortPromontory fort, inland · 315 yd
Cliff-edge fort in CastletowncooleyCliff-edge fort · 371 yd
IndicatedBawn · 782 yd
Piedmont Ho. (in ruins)House, 17th century · 794 yd
Cooley CastleCastle, tower house · 937 yd
Castletown Househouse · 996 yd
Grange UpperMountain / peak · 1.2 mi
SlievenagloghMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
The BushPicnic place · 1.7 mi
Carlingford - Loop 1A- Commons LoopWalking route · 2.5 mi
Carlingford Heritage CentreVisitor information · 2.8 mi
Graveyard in Liberties OF CarlingfordGraveyard · 2.8 miOther information
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