Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Templetown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templetown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98240, -6.16880
- SMR number
- LH008-118----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Aerial photograph (GB90.BZ.15) shows cropmarks of a rectilinear field system defined by fosses; a ring-ditch is integrated within the field system. It is plough-levelled. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990.
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 26 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.