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Ring-ditch

Maine, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Maine, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Maine
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.87653, -6.34989
SMR number
LH015-053----

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David 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

Situated on a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 4m) defined by a continuous fosse is faintly visible on Digital Globe images (c. 2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013) and a quarry or pit (diam. c. 9m) is c. 6m to the SE. The ring-ditch (LH015-052----) is c. 100m to the WSW, and it was first reported by Ken Williams.

See the attached enhanced image (top right) from Digital Globe (c. 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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