Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Piperstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piperstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78132, -6.35826
- SMR number
- LH021-084----
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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
A pair of conjoined pits in a figure-of-eight form, were identified while excavating drains in advance of plantation (Excavation Licence No. 03E1142). Pit 1, (Wth 0.95m NW/SE; D 0.13m) was lined with large stones and contained charcoal rich soil with fragments of burnt bone, the base was fire-reddened. Pit 2 (Wth 0.72m NW/SE; D 0.08m) contained occasional stones and charcoal rich soil. A small flue fed into both pits. (Keane 2006, 343)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 30 July 2012
References
Keane, M. 2006 Piperstown Prehistoric pits. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 343 (No. 1287). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.