Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlebellingham
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89193, -6.37127
- SMR number
- LH015-026----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered in 1988 during trench digging for the Dublin - Dundalk gas pipeline. Indicated by a spread of burnt stones. A sample of the burnt material was taken and a detailed petrological analysis carried out which revealed that sandstone was the predominant stone type but igneous rocks and a local rock type known as greywacke were also used. (Buckley, Gowen and Vaughan CLAJ 1987, 294-6)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 31 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.