Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Balregan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balregan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.02924, -6.43817
- SMR number
- LH007-001003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Monument described and illustrated by Wright (1758, Book 3, p. 7-8, Pl 1, Site A) as a circle of five large stones. No visible trace survives.
Reference:
Wright, T. 1758 Louthiana: or an introduction to the antiquities of Ireland. London. Thomas Payne.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.