Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Cookstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cookstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.89437, -6.59090
- SMR number
- LH014-057----
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
Section of drystone-faced earthen bank (Wth c. 2-5m, H 1m) passing along the N side of a mearing which divides the townlands of Cookstown and Tattyboys. This is reputedly a part of the Pale boundary, but is dismissed as such by Tempest (CLAJ 1931, 435).
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cremated remainsunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.