Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Grenan, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grenan
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81988, -7.35791
- SMR number
- LA035-088----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photograph (GB90.BM.02.) shows a ring-ditch. Low level earthwork on aerial photograph. Now surrounded by quarrying. May already have been destroyed. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990.
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of this report: 03 December 2009
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 14 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.