Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Hill of Rath, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hill of Rath
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.73871, -6.40328
- SMR number
- LH024-002002-
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
The following 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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Between 150 and 200 'urns' of various types were uncovered in the mid-nineteenth century during removal of an earthwork (LH024-002001-). All were inverted over human remains. Most were subsequently destroyed by the landowner, but an 'excavation' by J. H. Smith (PRIA (C) 1840-5, 259-61) recovered a Cordoned Urn (Kavanagh 1976, 369-70, no. 39) in association with a perforated bone pin, a bronze razor and a stone plaque (NMI reg. no. W 31) (JRSAI 1967, 42).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.