Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Dromin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84446, -6.43723
- SMR number
- LH018-013001-
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
Situated on a high wide E-W ridge and consisting of a sub-circular flat-topped mound (H 5.5m, diam. at base 24-28m, at top c. 15m) with slight traces of a fosse (max. Wth at NW 8.3m, D 0.5m) hardly discernible except at W. From NW to SW the side of the mound has been scarped and disturbed through use as a cattle track which gives access to the summit. Dromin church (LH018-014001-) is situated just to the ESE.
The above 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: 17 July 2007
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.