Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Killin (dundalk Upper By.), County Louth, Ireland
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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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
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
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Passage tomb artunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.