Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Moneymore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneymore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72914, -6.36452
- SMR number
- LH024-091----
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
Located at the bottom of a slight N-facing slope and at the S edge of a smal basin (diam. c. 300m N-S; c. 300m E-W). An oval enclosure (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by a single fosse feature is recorded in a gradiometer survey (18R0118) of a development area. It has a wide entrance at E and it may have numerous pits in the interior. It is situated beneath a N-S access route that is depicted on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. (Murphy and Breen 2021, 9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 March 2022
References
Murphy, D. and Breen, R. 2021 Geophysical Survey at a site at The Twenties, Moneymore, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Licence: 18R0188. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Unit
Murphy, Donald 2021 Archaeological Assessment at Ballymakenny Road, Yellowbatter, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Licence: 18E0550. Final unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.