Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Haynestown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haynestown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97225, -6.41474
- SMR number
- LH012-082----
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 prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 93E0098). Excavation revealed a penannular ditch with an opening at the NE (max. diam. c. 10.5m). The width of the ditch varied between 1m and 1.5m and the depth varied between 0.2m and 0.9m. It was filled with cremated bone, slag, pieces of metal artefacts, a bead, sherds of flat-bottomed pottery and flint flakes. These finds together with radiocarbon dates suggest the site was constructed and used during the Iron Age. A platform with postholes was discovered beside it and appeared to be contemporaneous. (O' Sullivan, 1993)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 May 2012
References
O'Sullivan, M. 1993 Report on the archaeological excavations at Haynestown, Co. Louth. Unpublished archaeological report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.