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
Local recollection of the destruction of a 'fort' at this site. No visible surface trace.
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
IndicatedFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 302 yd
Roche CastleCastle, Anglo-Norman masonry castle · 1500 yd
Enclosure in Roche (dundalk Upr By; Roche Par.)Enclosure · 1.0 mi
Bawn in Shortstone EastBawn · 1.0 mi
Ballsmill Amenity LandPicnic place · 1.1 mi
Sky HillMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
Slieve Cottagefarm house · 1.4 mi
kilnkiln · 1.4 mi
CroslieveMountain / peak · 3.0 mi
Mass Rock Loop TrailWalking route · 3.0 mi
Forkhill Greenspace PathwayWalking route · 3.1 mi
Ring of Gullion Way - ForkhillVisitor information · 3.3 mi