2017:641 - MONASCREEBE, Faughart, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: MONASCREEBE, Faughart
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH004-020
Licence number: 17E0291
Author: Aidan O’Connell, Archer Heritage Planning
Author/Organisation Address: 8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Site type: Ringfort - rath
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 704495m, N 813135m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.056759, -6.403977
Testing was undertaken in advance of construction of a single dwelling adjacent to a ringfort LH004-020 at Monascreebe, Faughart, Co. Louth. Test trenching confirmed the survival of the ringfort ditch within the subject site on the south-side side of the proposed dwelling. The site layout has been altered in order to avoid the projected line of the ringfort ditch.