What is recorded here

Promontory fort in County Louth, Ireland: a ridge end where the land falls away on three sides and a bank and shallow ditch cut the fourth, leaving a small high chamber above the valley. People may have stood there to watch the coast, keep livestock, mark territory or simply enjoy the drop. The stones and soil still hold the shape of that choice, even if the hands that made it have forgotten the name.

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 Located at E end of a high ridge running E-W, with the ground falling away sharply on the N, E and S sides. At the W an earth and stone bank with traces of a shallow external fosse cuts off the interior from the rest of the ridge. There is a slight bank extending around other areas of the scarp, with a drop of up to 4.5m down to the interior.

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