Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Newtown (ferrard By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (ferrard By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75265, -6.26577
- SMR number
- LH022-052003-
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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 on a low N-S ridge on land that was once demesne land of Newtown House. The cropmark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a slight fosse or ditch with an entrance at N is visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. It may have a pit at the centre, and it is within the E boundary of the large rectangular enclosure (LH022-052001-) which swings E to avoid it. The complex was reported separately by Anthony Murphy and Matthew Mullen-Reynolds around the same time.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.