Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Dromiskin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromiskin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92213, -6.39826
- SMR number
- LH012-046005-
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
A number of architectural fragments are situated within the early monastic site at Dromiskin, including a piece of a carved spiral pillar which Tempest (1952, 115-7) believed to be part of the church doorway.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 18 April 2012
References
Tempest, H.G. 1952 Gossiping guide to Co. Louth (3 parts). Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Nearby in the register
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.