Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Maine, County Louth, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.