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Settlement deserted - medieval

Piperstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement deserted - medieval, Piperstown, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Piperstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.78135, -6.35355
SMR number
LH021-027001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Locally known as 'Mullavilla', situated on high ground which falls away to the N and S, and consisting of a complex of irregular platforms and enclosures. The site covers c. seven acres in extent and has been disturbed by the cutting of a modern trackway across its central portion. Five irregular platforms can be identified. Most are rectangular or sub-rectangular (Wth c. 5m, L 5-15m) and some have slight evidence for enclosing banks. The enclosures vary considerably in size, shape and form, the smallest being almost 14m square with enclosing banks, others being large sub-rectangular sunken areas. There is no regular pattern or scheme, such as the association of platforms with the enclosures, and no obvious evidence for a sunken way. Motte LH021-027002- is situated just to the E, giving credence to the interpretation of this site as a deserted medieval village. However, an archaeological excavation of a limited area of the site in 1987, directed by T.B. Barry, indicated that it may be a post medieval rather than a medieval desertion (Medieval Archaeology 32 (1988), 297-8).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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