Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Littlegrange, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littlegrange
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72062, -6.44595
- SMR number
- LH024-088----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 towards the top of a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) defined by a single continuous fosse is visible on Apple Maps which utilises a survey undertaken by Bluesky International in June 2018. It was first reported b Anthony Murphy.
See the attached view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.