Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Whiterath, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whiterath
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.92149, -6.41121
- SMR number
- LH012-051----
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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
Situated roughly 27m from N edge of a marshy area, known locally as the 'Red Bog'. The site is recorded by Stubbs (JRSAI 1889, 272-4) as an oval area (max. dims. c. 30m by c. 22m) enclosed by a double ring of oak piles, set roughly 0.7-1m apart, with some morticed horizontal beams interspaced. There is a local tradition of a zigzag stone causeway from the N shore. No piles or surface features of the crannog are now visible, but the location is marked by a dense growth of bushes.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.