Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Cornamucklagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornamucklagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10748, -6.27823
- SMR number
- LH002-012002-
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Shown on 5 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
Situated on a slight gravel ridge just above the high water mark on the SW shore of the Newry River estuary. Archaeological excavation (E 4498) in advance of a new bridge recorded a large pit (dims c. 3m x c. 2.4m; max. D 0.56m) filled with a charcoal-rich soil that has inclusions of broken and burnt stones. Samples of oak, ash, hazel and blackthorn were identified but the lithic assemblage consisted of debris. A radiocarbon determination of 3336-2943 BC in the Middle Neolithic period is recorded. The habitation (LH002-012001-) is c. 10m to the S and early medieval metalworking and corn-drying kilns are c. 20m to the NE. (Walsh 2015, 301-02)
Date of upload: 25 October, 2016
References
Walsh, F. 2015 Archaeological Excavations at Cornamucklagh, Omeath, County Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, vol. 28, No. 3, 297-308.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.