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
- 53.60187, -6.66229
- SMR number
- ME031-076003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (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
Situated on a level landscape on the NW bank a SW-NE section of the River Boyne, with the stream c. 80m to the SE. The cropmark of a relatively large ring-ditch (ME031-076001is visible on an aerial photograph (ME031-076_1) taken in July 2018, but a smaller ring-ditch (ME031-076002-) is situated c. 55m to the E, and this smaller ring-ditch (diam. c. 2m) defined by a barely perceptible fosse feature is c. 5m further to the E.
Compiled by Michael Moore based on details provided by Oliver and Noel Murphy.
Date of upload: 7 August, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.