Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Haggardstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haggardstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96326, -6.37837
- SMR number
- LH012-072----
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
Discovered during archaeological monitoring (Excavation Licence 99E0683). Two pits filled with burnt soil and heat shattered stones. One was oval shaped (max. diam. 1.3m; D 0.2m) and the other was irregular in shape (1.1m x 0.64m; max. D 0.24m). (O' Carroll 2000, 185-6)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 April 2012
References
O'Carroll, F. 2000 Haggardstown Blackrock. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 183-6, no. 544. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.