Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Balgatheran, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balgatheran
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74921, -6.40979
- SMR number
- LH021-065001-
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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
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0477). An area measuring c. 4800sq m was excavated (Chapple 2002, 210-12). A variety of different structures and phases of activity were identified. Two large boundary ditches (LH021-065001- and LH021-065002-), an industrial site (LH021-065003-), a hut site (LH021-065004-) and a kiln (LH021-065005-) date to the Early Christian period. Three structures (LH021-065006-, LH021-065007- and LH021-065008-) date to the Medieval period.
This portion of excavated ditch (LH021-065001-) (L 40m; average Wth 3m; D 2m) was curvilinear in shape with a terminal at the eastern end. It has a projected diam. of 70m. Three separate re-cuts were evident and 24 different fills recorded. A second or possible inner ditch (LH021-065002-) lay approximately 21m to the S. (Chapple 2002, 211)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 July 2012
References
Chapple, R. 2002 Balgatheran 1. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 210-2 (No. 638). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.