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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Aghnaskeagh, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Aghnaskeagh, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Aghnaskeagh
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Megalithic Structure
Coordinates
54.06128, -6.35797
SMR number
LH004-032----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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

This monument was excavated in 1934 by E. E. Evans (CLAJ 1935, 234-55). It comprises an oval cairn (LH004-032001-), 17.5m long by 11m wide, orientated NNE-SSW, incorporating a portal-tomb to the E and six Bronze Age cists to the W. The tomb, facing N, is represented by portal stones, each 2.7m high, and a back stone standing 2m to the S. The chamber area contained four pockets of cremated bone with some Neolithic and Bronze Age pot sherds and a blue glass bead. The cists (LH004-032002-, LH004-032004-, LH004-032005-, LH004-032006-, LH004-032007-, LH004-032008-) yielded cremations and food vessels. Evidence of iron-smelting was recovered from a furnace area (LH004-032003-) immediately N of the cairn (PRIA (C) 1982, 320-1, fig. 36).

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 36/1934) and is also a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 326

The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 17 July 2007

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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