Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Townparks (upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (upper Dundalk By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.00179, -6.40332
- SMR number
- LH007-119031-
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
Refuse mound discovered during archaeological test trenching (Excavation Licence No. 96E0093) and partially excavated. Finds included iron slag, animal bones, mussel shells and eleven pottery sherds, the earliest dating to around the first half of the 14th century. (Campbell 1997a, 81)
Reference:
Campbell, K. 1997 Rampart Road, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 81 (No. 289). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.