Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Braganstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Braganstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88943, -6.42780
- SMR number
- LH015-034----
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
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 97E0475 ext.). Excavation revealed a burnt spread (8.4m x 4.56m) which covered a hearth, a trough, two pits and a rough paved area. A large number of flint artefacts were recovered, including a leaf-shaped arrowhead, a barbed and tanged arrowhead, three round scrapers, two cores together with primary flakes and débitage. Over half the flint artefacts were recovered on top of the paved area, leading to the suggestion that this may have functioned as knapping area. (Ó Drisceoil 2000, 186)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 June 2012
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2000 Braganstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 186 (No. 545). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.