Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Dromiskin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromiskin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92090, -6.39767
- SMR number
- LH012-090----
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
Exposed during pre-development archaeological testing (Excavation Licence No. 99E0330). Excavation initially uncovered a layer of irregularly arranged branches, root fragments and possible reeds or rushes. Below this layer were a number of longitudinal and transverse timbers and more irregularly arranged roots and branches set in peat. The exact function of this feature is not clear as no diagnostic artefacts were found. (Murphy and Conway 2000, 205-7)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 May 2012
References
Murphy, D. and Conway, M. 2000 Dromiskin. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 205-7, no. 590. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.