Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Deerpark, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02400, -6.46799
- SMR number
- LH006-134004-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Situated on a slight SE-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a single unbroken fosse (Wth c. 3-4m) is only visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.