Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine
Salterstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Salterstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87777, -6.30263
- SMR number
- LH016-001----
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
Lead and copper mine noted by Bassett (1886, 243). Now closed.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 June 2012
References
Bassett, G.H. 1886 (reprint 1998) Louth County, guide and directory. Dundalk. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.