Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Town defences
Townparks (upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (upper Dundalk By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.01207, -6.40383
- SMR number
- LH007-119027-
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
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
The town wall of Dundalk enclosed an irregularly shaped elongated area of roughly 19 hectares (48 acres). Town defences investigated by Gosling (1982, 43-6) and Bradley (1984b, 128-30).
A small scale excavation on Clanbrassil Street (Excavation Licence 95E0168) revealed a section of the medieval town ditch. This excavation was the first to establish an exact location for the town defences. (McConway, 1995a)
Nearby in the register
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- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Kiln - potteryunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.