Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
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
- 54.10764, -6.27813
- SMR number
- LH002-012005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the slight NE-facing slope of gravel ridge between the high and low water marks on the SW shore of the Newry River estuary. Archaeological excavation (E 4498) in advance of a new bridge recorded a metal-working area and two corn-drying kilns. The evidence of metal-working consisted of two small hearths and a spread of fire-hardened clay and ash extending E from one of the hearths. The metalworking was the finishing of objects and very little slag was recovered. Oak was the principal firing material used and a radiocarbon date of AD 1044-1218 is recorded from a piece of willow charcoal. (Walsh 2015, 305-06)
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
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.