Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballynahattin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahattin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03629, -6.39982
- SMR number
- LH004-134003-
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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
Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0873). One of two small ring-barrows (see also LH004-134004-), (ext. diam. 5-6m; int. diam. 3.5m), both contained small central pits, possibly containing cremations. (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 Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0873, Irish Archaeological Consultancy.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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.