Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cortial, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cortial
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.99976, -6.49463
- SMR number
- LH006-052001-
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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
A trapezoidal platform (max. dims. 26m E-W, 23m N-S, H c. 1m) with a very slight, and in places much-degraded, bank around its perimeter. The platform is quite steep-sided in places and its surface is strewn with large stones. There is no obvious evidence of any structure within the enclosed area. Souterrain LH006-052002- is situated just to the E of the site. (CLAJ 1942, 106; CLAJ 1961, 5)
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.