TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Settlement deserted - medieval

Stormanstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement deserted - medieval, Stormanstown, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Stormanstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.88785, -6.61172
SMR number
LH013-031----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Aerial photographs (GB91.DC.03, 12 and 13) show an extensive sequence of earthworks delineating a deserted settlement, probably of medieval date, comprising:
a) three hollow-ways;
(i) a hollow-way extending north-west to south-east and centred at 291211, 294036
(ii) a complex system of hollow-ways in the middle of the earthwork complex and centred at 291282, 294084; a broad central hollow-way bifurcates at both ends to form four separate hollow-ways.
(iii) a hollow-way extending along the southern edge of the earthwork sequence and centred at 291280, 294000
b) a series of rectilinear plots extending in a north-easterly direction from the southern hollow-way, probably representing the individual crofts of the medieval village; and
c) an earthen bank extending west to east, providing the southern limit of the settlement, centred at 291348, 294019
The earthworks are located between St. Medoc's church (LH013 -028001 in Churchtown townland), and the motte and bailey castle at Stormanstown (LH013 -024001), both of which would have formed part of the contemporary medieval landscape.

Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Date of upload: 23 December 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Settlement deserted - medieval in Louth All County Louth records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map