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Hut site

Balgatheran, County Louth, Ireland

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Townland
Balgatheran
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.74892, -6.40988
SMR number
LH021-065004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 hut site (LH021-065004-) was located between two ditches (LH021-065001- and LH021-065002-) and immediately N of the inner ditch (LH021-065002-). Composed of two arcing cuts, one of which had two postholes cut into its base. These two cuts appeared to be part of a circular structure with a diam. of c. 4m. (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.

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