Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Edmondstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edmondstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Martins Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Martins Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.90409, -6.62474
- SMR number
- LH013-010----
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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: 25 May 2012
Rectangular earth-covered stone structure (max. dims. 31m by 12.5m) placed on top of high ridge, orientated NNE-SSW. Marked on 1835 ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'Martin's Fort'. At NNE end is raised 'platform'. Bones and skeletons found close to the site and in larger quantities in field to E (LH013-011----). (CLAJ 1910, 295). Possibly a church site.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.