Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Slab-lined burial
Proleek, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Proleek
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.04491, -6.36148
- SMR number
- LH004-068003-
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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: 17 November 2011
One of two stone-lined long cists (see also LH004-068002-), aligned E-W, one containing a skull, the other fragments of unidentified human bones. Discovered in the interior of large enclosure (LH004-068001-). (CLAJ 1933, 100)
Nearby in the register
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.