Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Skeaghmore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeaghmore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.83482, -6.33430
- SMR number
- LH018-022----
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
'Crock' containing human bones, under two flagstones, found near Dysart school during road-widening operations (IFC Schools MSS, 105-6). The vessel apparently crumbled when lifted.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.