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Ring-ditch

Garryhundon, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Garryhundon, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Garryhundon
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
52.75949, -6.93083
SMR number
CW012-097----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Aerial photograph (GB89.S.08) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch (one of two adjacent ring-ditches). This is the larger of the two. Sequence of fosses in adjacent fields. Ring-ditches are often found in association with plough-levelled field boundaries. Detailed mapping needed to clarify whether some may be contemporaneous. The closely spaced parallel linear ditches may also be a plough-levelled field boundary.

Bibliography
Barrett, G.F. 'Early landscapes in County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin.. Forthcoming 2008.

Barrett , G.F. (2002) 'Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989-2000' in the Journal of Irish Archaeology, XI, 2002., pp. 1-30.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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