Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Stonetown Lower, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stonetown Lower
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96521, -6.60324
- SMR number
- LH011-102----
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
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
General area known as 'Castle Field'. No visible surface trace.
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
O'Carroll, F. 2002 Stonetown Lower. Vicinity of Castle site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 240, No. 709. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.