Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Philipstown (dundalk Upper By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Philipstown (dundalk Upper By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Philipstown Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church
- Coordinates
- 54.02699, -6.48817
- SMR number
- LH006-014001-
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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
The following 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/revision: 17 July 2007
Grass-covered rectangular structure (max. dims. c. 36m by 15m). Possible doorway on W side. Local tradition of burials at site. (CLAJ 1929, 60; CLAJ 1941, 23)
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.