Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Ballinlough, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlough
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Coordinates
- 53.97090, -6.48108
- SMR number
- LH011-015006-
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
Situated on a slight E-W ridge in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 8m) defined by a single continuous fosse is visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére, followed by Anthony Murphy.
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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.