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Excavation - miscellaneous

Townparks (Upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Townparks, 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
Townparks (Upper Dundalk By.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.00577, -6.39470
SMR number
LH007-119037-

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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

Discovered during monitoring at 76 Seatown, Dundalk (Excavation Licence No. 03E0477), during the excavation of foundation trenches for an extension to an office building. Medieval deposits were uncovered throughout the site. Part of a medieval pit (L 2.2m; max. exposed Wth 1m; D 0.7m) was excavated. 'The fill contained frequent shell flecks (mussel, cockle), occasional whole oyster and periwinkle, ten animal bones and five small sherds of medieval pottery of local manufacture of c. 13th-14th-century date'. (Campbell 2006, 339)

Reference:

Campbell, K. 2006 Seatown, Dundalk Medieval Urban. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 339 (No. 1269). Bray. Wordwell.

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 24 November 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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