Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Linns, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Linns
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88260, -6.34669
- SMR number
- LH015-015003-
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
At E of interior of 'Lisnaran fort' (LH015-015001-) is a circular hut site (LH015-015002-) (int. diam. 4.2m) delimited by a slight bank (Wth 1m, H 0.2m). Adjacent to this hut site, on the edge of the interior of the site, are two banks suggesting the former existence of a larger, rectangular hut (LH015-015003-).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 31 May 2012
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1971).
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.