Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Piedmont, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piedmont
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Megalithic Structure
- Coordinates
- 54.00079, -6.25392
- SMR number
- LH008-103----
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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
Marked as 'Megalithic Structure' on the 1938-9 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Tempest records a local tradition of an urn burial (OS Revision Name Book 230, 10). The area consists of outcropping natural rock with a number of fractured blocks close by.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.