Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Southfield, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Southfield
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97744, -7.08805
- SMR number
- LA019-076----
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5 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)
- 1942 · Sheet 349 - Third Edition (Layered) - Ordnance Survey of Ireland, One inch to the mile… (National Library of Scotland)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photograph (GB90.CM.23) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure or ring-ditch; a larger cropmark enclosure (LA019-077) is located immediately to the north-west. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The enclosure borders the field boundary on its eastern side.
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of this report: 01 February 2010
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.