Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Priorstown (ferratd By; Drumshallon Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Priorstown (ferratd By; Drumshallon Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78505, -6.30755
- SMR number
- LH022-011----
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
Local tradition that the walls of a monastery from which the townland took its name (IFC Schools MSS 674, 151) are preserved in the roadside walls.
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 17 June 2017
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.