Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Mountbagnall, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountbagnall
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.99833, -6.22881
- SMR number
- LH008-110----
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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 archaeological trial test trenching in 2001 (Excavation Licence 01E0150). It took the form of an oval shaped pit (max. diam. 0.45m; D 0.1m) which was filled with heavily stained charcoal soil and flecks of cremated bone. Bone analysis required to check if bone is human. (O' Carroll 2003, 268)
Reference:
O'Carroll, F. 2003 Mountbagnall. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 268, (no. 873). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 8 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.