Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Mullagharlin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagharlin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97508, -6.39481
- SMR number
- LH012-075----
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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 pre-development test excavation (Excavation Licence No. 98E0440 ext.). A linear ditch (L 24m; max. Wth 2.5m; D 0.5m) was excavated. No diagnostic finds were recovered from this. (McLoughlin 2000, 214)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of uplaod: 20 April 2012
References
McLoughlin, C. 2000 Mullagharlin/Haggardstown, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 213-15, no. 610. Bray. Wordwell.
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