Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rootate

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 Oval platform (int. dims. 29m E-W, 20m N-S, H 0.5-2m), the top of which is enclosed by a much-degraded earthen bank now reduced to a scarp. Traces of internal fosse (Wth 3.3m, D 0.3m) at W. Ancient entrance at NE represented by a depression in the scarp (Wth 1.8m). Modern depression in scarp at NNW.