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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Killin (Dundalk Upper By.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Killin, 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
Killin (Dundalk Upper By.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
54.02976, -6.45943
SMR number
LH006-016----

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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

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

This, the second of the two monuments published by Wright in 1758 (see also LH006-015001-), stood on a lower hill nearby. His plan shows two concentric rings which appear to represent a cairn of somewhat smaller dimensions than LH006-015001-. He gives no description of this monument, but its proximity to the other cairn and its hilltop siting indicate that it too may have been a passage-tomb. It is not now possible to locate the precise site of this monument which was probably destroyed together with the main hilltop site in the early nineteenth century. (CLAJ 1907, 60)

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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