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Children's burial ground

Cortial, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Cortial, 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
Cortial
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.99976, -6.49463
SMR number
LH006-052001-

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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

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

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

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