Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dowdallshill, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowdallshill
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.01951, -6.38566
- SMR number
- LH007-127001-
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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
Discovered during road construction (Excavation Licence No. 94E0075). Heavily truncated before excavation commenced. Remains consisted of two ditches (avg. Wth 6.5m; avg. D 3.5m) running at right angles across the road-take. Artefacts recovered included Souterrain ware pottery, a polished stone axe, a bone comb and flint fragments. A geophysical survey indicated that the ditches formed part of a rectangular enclosure. A substantial portion of the site lay undisturbed on either side of the road. (Channing 1995, 61)
Reference:
Channing, J. 1995 Dowdallshill. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 61 (No. 169). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 30 November 2011
References
Channing, J. 1995a Dowdallshill. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 61, no. 169. Bray. Wordwell.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.