Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Grange (navan Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (navan Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59801, -6.67806
- SMR number
- ME031-055----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a rise on the N bank of a WSW-ENE section of the River Boyne, with the stream c. 160m to the S. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 8m) defined by a continuous fosse feature (Wth c. 1-2m) is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013; 07/05/2017; 14/07/2018). It was first reported by Gillian Barrett in 2009, but an incorrect location c. 150m further W was entered. The Google Earth images were reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.