Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Richard Taaffe'S Holding, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Richard Taaffe'S Holding
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.95209, -6.54273
- SMR number
- LH011-115012-
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
Bradley and King (1984b, 148) noted a font 'lying in the front garden of the first house on the E of the Iniskeen Road' and described it as 'a small sandstone font, chamfered on two sides with a central drainage hole'.
Reference:
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1984b Urban archaeological survey - county Louth. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 12 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.