Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 53.72690, -6.46146
- SMR number
- LH023-013----
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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
Located on top of the E end of a WNW-ESE ridge. The parch-marks of a relict and unmapped field systems is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. It is visible as lines of cropmark drains aligned NNW-SSE covering an area of about 2 hectares (c. 5 acres). At one point there is a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 48m x c. 45m) attached to one of these long drains together with a more subcircular enclosure (dims c. 40m x c. 40m). It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.