Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Whiteriver, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whiteriver
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80631, -6.45576
- SMR number
- LH018-070----
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
Three sides of a rectilinear enclosure and a number of pits were identified in 2004 during archaeological monitoring of top soil stripping as part of the extension to the Whiteriver Landfill site (Excavation Licence No. 04E0601) (Bolger 2004, 270). Partial excavation (Excavation Licence No. 04E1531) uncovered a number of further pits, postholes and ditches and established that the enclosure measured c. 24m x 19m. A fragment of a lignite bracelet was recovered from an upper fill of the ditch of the rectilinear enclosure. The excavator suggested that the enclosure probably dates to the Early Christian period. The site was preserved in situ. (McConway 2007, 270)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 July 2012
References
McConway C. 2007 Whiteriver Early Christian. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 270 (No. 1129). Bray. Wordwell
Bolger T. 2007 Whiteriver/Gunstown Enclosure, pits, etc.. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 270 (No. 1128). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.