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House - Neolithic

Coolfore, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - Neolithic, Coolfore, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coolfore
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.76163, -6.41480
SMR number
LH021-072----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0794). Excavation of an area 50m x 40m led to the discovery of two Neolithic Structures (LH021-072---- and LH021-078----), a cobbled surface and c. 40 pits (LH021-079----). One of the Neolithic structures was rectangular in shape (9.2m x 6m). It was represented by three large post holes and an incomplete foundation trench which varied in depth from 0.2m to 0.02m. A second trench just S of the structure may have functioned as a drip-trench. Nothing survived of the interior of the structure. A number of sherds of Neolithic pottery together with both burnt and un-burnt flint flakes were recovered from the trenches. (Ó Drisceoil 2002, 214-5)

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 25 July 2012

References

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2002 Site 1, Coolfore. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 214-5 (No. 649). Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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