TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Mound

Barnaveddoge, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Barnaveddoge, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Barnaveddoge
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
53.84272, -6.47932
SMR number
LH017-035----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David 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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

The following 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/revision: 17 July 2007

Located on top of a long, broad, fertile ridge running E-W. The site is now levelled, but a survey by O. Davies (OPW file 1942) records a wedge-shaped mound (L 22.8m; Wth 6.4m at W, 4.9m at E; H 1.5m at W, 1m at E) composed of clay and stones. Davies suggested that the site might be a settlement, but the OS (OS Memoranda 5675 A, B) record that it was locally known as a 'Giant's Grave', which would suggest it may have been a megalithic tomb.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Mound in Louth All County Louth records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map