Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Slab-lined burial
Dromiskin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromiskin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.92183, -6.39614
- SMR number
- LH012-047----
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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
Two long cists built of small slabs of local shale were discovered in the nineteenth century. They were found at a depth of 2m below ground surface which suggests some form of earthwork overlay them. Both cists were aligned E-W, the first (LH012-047----) containing an extended inhumation with the skull at the E end. Beside the skull was a small sandstone box containing a leather-covered wooden box. Inside this was part of a small bronze ring-headed pin and charcoal. The second cist (LH012-089----) contained the extended skeleton of a female with head to W. Both cists can be assigned to the Early Christian period. (CLAJ 1942, 133-7)
Nearby in the register
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.