Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Gorteen, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.01405, -6.55491
- SMR number
- LH006-020----
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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
Found during ploughing on the slope of a fairly steep hill. The pit was circular in plan (diam. c. 0.7m, D c. 0.9m), cut into the boulder clay, and contained charcoal and two Cordoned Urns (Kavanagh 1976, 368, Nos 33, 34). (CLAJ 1928, 256-60)
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.