Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Newtown Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Monasterboice
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76788, -6.41197
- SMR number
- LH021-066----
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
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0479). Consisted of four pits and two postholes. Two postholes and one pit were found in close proximity and the other three pits were found some distance away to the N. The fills of the features varied considerably and the only finds were a piece of struck flint and a piece of slag recovered from two of the pits. Analysis of these features is difficult due to the limited evidence and the excavator suggests that 'it is unlikely that the excavated features all relate to a single period or phase' (Chapple 2002, 238-9).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
References
Chapple, R. 2002 Site 4, Newtown-Monasterboice. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 238-9 (No. 703). Bray. Wordwell.
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