Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Dawsonsdemesne, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dawsonsdemesne
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85689, -6.52315
- SMR number
- LH017-109----
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
An irregularly shaped pit (max. diam. 0.8m; D 0.08m) discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 99E0200). Its fill contained flecks of charcoal, fragments of shattered stone and a single sherd of coarse pottery. (Seaver 2000, 190)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 29 June 2012
References
Seaver, M. 2000 Dawsons Demesne. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 190 (No. 559). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.