Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Dromiskin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromiskin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91229, -6.40852
- SMR number
- LH015-003----
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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
Bones and skulls unearthed between Mullaghlinn and Cleggadinna - 'hill of the skulls' - in the nineteenth century. Local tradition records a battle nearby, possible mass grave. (Stubbs 1889, 274)
The above 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: 17 July 2007
References
Stubbs, F. W. 1889 Notes on the Antiquities of Dromiskin, in the County of Lough. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 19, 271-6.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.