Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Shortstone West, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shortstone West
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.04631, -6.52636
- SMR number
- LH003-022002-
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
Sub-rectangular hut platform (max. dims. 12m N-S, 11m E-W) in centre of ringfort (LH003-022001-), defined by slight bank (H 0.7m) with entrance gap at E end of S side.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 10 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.