Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sheepgrange, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheepgrange
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72018, -6.46292
- SMR number
- LH023-010----
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 S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 34m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Bing aerial images (c. 2013). It was first identified by Tom Condit, and is also visible as a faint feature on Google images (12/07/2013, 21/04/2019).
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/06/2019)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 May, 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.