Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
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
- 53.75926, -6.41508
- SMR number
- LH021-071----
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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. 00E0905). A rectangular building (3.7m x 3.2m) defined by four substantial post-pits, three of which displayed evidence for burning, with an entrance at the SE and a small hearth in the centre. This structure and four others (see LH021-080----, LH021-081----, LH021-082---- and LH021-083----) appeared to have both domestic and ritual functions. A large assemblage of artefacts was recovered from the area of the five structures including 238 sherds of Grooved Ware which represented at least 23 individual pots, 30 flint scrapers, a large collection of flint débitage, a fragment of a polished stone axe and a small quantity of burnt bone. (Ó Drisceoil 2003, 255-7)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2003 Balgatheran, Site 4. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 255-7 (No. 833). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.