Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Balriggan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balriggan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03607, -6.41254
- SMR number
- LH004-142----
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
Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0874). An isolated hearth and pit were uncovered at this location. (Delaney 2006, 325)
Reference:
Delaney, S. 2006 Balriggan Pits. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 325 (No. 1225). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 18 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.