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Cremation pit

Carn More, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cremation pit, Carn More, 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
Carn More
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.03627, -6.40896
SMR number
LH004-140----

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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. 03E0867). The remains of one cremated adult female were uncovered in an oval pit (L 0.82m; Wth 0.61m; D 0.31m). The excavator suggested that it was probably associated with the Bronze Age Habitation site (LH004-139----) situated c. 20m to the E. (Delaney 2006, 340), (Delaney 2009, 18).

References:

Delaney, S. 2006 Carn More, Faughart Neolithic; Ringfort and Souterrain. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (No. 1272). Bray. Wordwell

Delaney, S. 2009 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 124: Carn More 1 chainage 24.350-24.550 NGR: 304357 / 310846, Final report on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0867, Irish Archaeological Consultancy.

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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