Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Neolithic
Coolfore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolfore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76168, -6.41469
- SMR number
- LH021-078----
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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. 00E0794). Excavation of an area 50m x 40m area led to the discovery of two Neolithic Structures (LH021-072---- and LH021-078----), a cobbled surface (situated between the two structures) and approximately 40 pits (LH021-079----). This structure was smaller in size (6m x 5.1m) and better preserved than the other (LH021-072----) which was located 9m to the S. Its outline was marked by a foundation trench which varied in depth from 0.14m to 0.04m and contained remnants of burnt planks. Three postholes, two pits and a possible hearth were identified in the interior along with a number of sherds of Neolithic pottery. (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
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.