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Metalworking site

Aghnaskeagh, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, 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
LH004-032003-

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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

Excavated by E. E. Evans in 1934. At NE end of cairn (LH004-032001-) was a primitive furnace, 'stoke hole' and flue used in iron-working. The structure consisted of an unlined furnace, using fused clay as walling. This type of bowl furnace probably had courses of stones added as heightening. Extending from the bowl was a flue (L c. 2m, Wth c. 0.3m) roughly D-shaped in section. The door of the furnace faced SW, obviously to catch the prevailing wind, and led to a small 'stoke hole' and a paved pathway (L c. 2m, Wth c. 0.3m) roughly D-shaped in section. The door of the furnace faced SW, obviously to catch the prevailing wind, and led to a small 'stoke hole' and a paved pathway (L c. 1.7m) of granite slabs. The excavator has suggested that smelting took place at the mouth of Cist 3 (LH004-032002-). (CLAJ 1935, 234-55)

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/revision: 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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