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Barrow - embanked barrow

Ballynahattin, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - embanked barrow, Ballynahattin, 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
Ballynahattin
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.03631, -6.39936
SMR number
LH004-134002-

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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

Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0873). A mound (diam. 26m) with an external turf bank. No evidence for a ditch. A disturbed, stone-lined burial chamber was discovered in the centre. Only the northern half survived as the southern half was truncated by the Dublin-Belfast railway embankment quarry. Finds consisted of scattered cremated bone, a few sherds of encrusted urn, a copper alloy pin, four small copper alloy ornaments or fastenings and three pieces of struck/worked flint. Situated c. 50m to the S of a burial cairn (LH004-134001-) and c. 50m to the E of two ring barrows (LH004-134003- and LH004-134004-). (Bayley 2006, 340-1; Bayley 2005, 10)

References:

Bayley, D. 2005 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 127: Carn More 5 chainage 24.810-25.100 NGR: 304912 / 310860, Post-excavation assessment and project design on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0873, Irish Archaeological Consultancy.

Bayley, D. 2006 Site 127, Carn More 5, Faughart Bronze Age cemetery. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340-1 (No. 1275). Bray. Wordwell

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 18 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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