Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Parsonstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parsonstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81203, -6.27879
- SMR number
- LH019-037001-
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 fairly level landscape. The cropmarks of two small features are visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). This is a circular area (int. diam. c. 8m) defined by a single continuous fosse. The ring-ditch (LH019-037002-) is c. 8m to the SSE. The features were first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.