Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
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
- 54.03767, -6.37968
- SMR number
- LH004-143----
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. 04E0811). Eight circular and sub-circular pits containing small quantities of cremated bone and charcoal were uncovered within an area 12m by 7m. Fragments of coarse, decorated prehistoric pottery were discovered in two of the pits. (Hayes 2007, 265)
Reference:
Hayes, A. 2007 FAUGHART LOWER Pits. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 265 (No. 1107). 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.