Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Barnaveddoge, County Louth, Ireland
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.
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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
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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.