Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 53.75010, -6.41112
- SMR number
- LH021-075----
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. 00E0943). Excavation revealed eleven small pits (diam. of each less than 0.5m) spread over an area measuring c. 20m x 13m. Over 50 sherds of Neolithic pottery were recovered from them, together with a number of flint flakes and a round scraper. (Campbell 2002, 212-3)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
References
Campbell, K. 2002 Balgatheran 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 212-3 (No. 639). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.