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Round tower

Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Round tower, Faughart Upper, 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
Faughart Upper
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.05168, -6.38447
SMR number
LH004-097004-

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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

Two mounds in graveyard (LH004-097003-) were partially investigated by L. Connor (CLAJ 1966, 125-9). The results of these excavations were inconclusive but it has been suggested by Barrow (1979, 154) that one of them may be the base of a round tower (CLAJ 1941, 7).

References:
Barrow, G.L. 1979 The round towers of Ireland: a study and gazetteer. Dublin. The Academy Press.
CLAJ County Louth Archaeological Journal

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 17 November 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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