Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.