Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Faughart Lower, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Lower
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03738, -6.38580
- SMR number
- LH004-136----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Excavations as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E1574) uncovered four shallow pits forming a curvilinear arc running NE-SW, with one possible pit, internal to the arc. 153 sherds of prehistoric pottery were recovered from the pits. (Delaney 2006, 341)
Reference:
Delaney, S. 2006 Faughart Lower Prehistoric pits. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 341 (No. 1279). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 18 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.