Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Aghnaskeagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghnaskeagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Megalithic Structure
- Coordinates
- 54.05035, -6.35947
- SMR number
- LH004-041----
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
The following 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: 29 August 2007
This tomb is very ruined. The remains consist of two orthostats, 2.4m apart and aligned WSW-ENE, with a large, horizontally-laid stone set beside and perpendicular to one of the orthostats; the two latter stones are incorporated in a roadside fence. The OS field trace records that there was formerly 'a large flat stone resting on 2 others' (6-inch map 4, revision 1862). Excavation of the area to the north of the stones as part of the NRA work on the M1 Dundalk Western Bypass in 2005 demonstrated that the remains are those of a court tomb.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.