Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Barronstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barronstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02654, -6.51204
- SMR number
- LH006-006----
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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
Sub-rectangular mound (max. dims 26m E-W; 15m N-S) with traces of L-shaped platform at W end. Situated in field known as 'Castle Field' (Jordan 1934, 214).
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 July 2007
References
Jordan, J. 1934. Townland Survey of County Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 8, 2, 210-14.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 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.