Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Lurgankeel, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgankeel
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04694, -6.43887
- SMR number
- LH004-053003-
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 remains of a small mound enclosed by a fosse located in bailey part of motte (see LH004-053001-), discovered during excavation by the OPW in 1964. (Oibre no. 2 (1965), 22)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.