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
- 53.76369, -6.41422
- SMR number
- LH021-073001-
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 00E0796). Located c. 15m N of a fulacht fia (LH021-064----). Two small pits filled with burnt stone, ash and charcoal. (Ó Drisceoil 2002, 238)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2002 Site 2, Newtown-Monasterboice. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 238 (No. 701). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.