Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Tullakeel, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullakeel
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Murrays Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.89048, -6.64557
- SMR number
- LH013-019----
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
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: 17 July 2007
Situated on top of ridge in drumlin landscape. Sub-circular, flat-topped mound (max. dims. 14.4m N-S, 11.5m E-W, H 0.8m). There are traces of a circle of kerb stones 1m inside the edge of the mound. The mound material has spread beyond the kerb stones, giving an irregular shape to the barrow.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.