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
Situated in NE quadrant of ringfort (LH008-013001-). Now visible only as a series of depressions. Also noted by OS (Memoranda 6921) and H. G. Tempest (CLAJ 1933, 96-7).
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
Man-made underground passageFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 5 yd
Hut site in CastletowncooleyHut site · 537 yd
R.C. ChapelChurch · 712 yd
Grange UpperMountain / peak · 800 yd
BarnavaveMountain / peak · 1100 yd
Castletown Househouse · 1.1 mi
Cooley CastleCastle, tower house · 1.1 mi
Carlingford - Loop 1A- Commons LoopWalking route · 1.4 mi
The BushPicnic place · 1.6 mi
Carlingford Heritage CentreVisitor information · 1.6 mi
Graveyard in Liberties OF CarlingfordGraveyard · 1.7 mi
Mount Bagnell FoerCastle, motte and bailey · 1.7 mi