Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Killineer, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killineer
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.75818, -6.40830
- SMR number
- LH021-041001-
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
Situated at the NW foot of Red Mt. Circular, round-topped mound (diam. 13m, H 1.5-2m) enclosed by a fosse, of which slight traces only remain at N. On top of the mound is a slight depression, owing to modern disturbance, in which lies a slab (L 0.7m, Wth 0.5m). Under this slab was found a large portion of an urn and fragments of cremated bone (see LH021-041002-). These are now in the National Museum (NMI reg. nos 1967: 198-9). Site known locally as 'Cooney's Moat'. (JRSAI 1970, 152)
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.