Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Grange Irish, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Irish
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01057, -6.17240
- SMR number
- LH008-067----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
High mound which may be glacial deposit. Traces of stone bank at perimeter of top (max. dims. 11.5m by 10.5m). Slight rise in centre. Locally known as a 'fort'. (OS Memoranda 6907 A, B)
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.