Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Haggardstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haggardstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.96861, -6.38270
- SMR number
- LH012-010----
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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
Site of castle known as 'Caisleán Uachtrach Baile Sagairt' (Jordan 1934, 210-2). There is no visible surface remains, but excavation in the vicinity recorded four shallow features that might have been associated with it (Murphy 1995, 64).
The above 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 revision: 4 May 2016
References
Jordan, J. 1934. Townland Survey of County Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 8, 2, 210-14.
Murphy, D. 1995 Haggardstown, Blackrock, Dundalk. Medieval activity? in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 64 (No. 178) Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.