Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Stormanstown, County Louth, Ireland
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----
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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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.