Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Balregan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balregan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02886, -6.43393
- SMR number
- LH007-001011-
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
Excavated in advance of the 'M1 Dundalk Western Bypass - Northern Link' (Excavation Licence No. 03E0157). A circular (diam. 18m) terrace cut into sloping ground with two pits and three postholes in the interior. (O'Donnchadha B. 2005, 10)
Reference:
O'Donnchadha B. 2005 Dundalk Western Bypass: Site 116: Balregan 1 Chainage 23.470 - 22.600 Post-Excavation assessment and updated project design on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority, Licence Number 03E0157. Unpublished Report DAHG, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.