Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Aghnaskeagh, County Louth, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.