Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Grange, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96776, -6.50470
- SMR number
- LH011-156001-
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
Located at the crest of the N-facing slope at the E end of a low E-W ridge. The faint cropmarks of two small enclosures are visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). This feature (diam. c. 10m) is defined by a single fosse and is c. 15m N of (LH011-156002-). They were 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: 22 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.