Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Townleyhall, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townleyhall
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72649, -6.42856
- SMR number
- LH024-007004-
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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
Cremation found scattered on the surface of the settlement (LH024-007001-) in association with sherds of a decorated Neolithic bowl. (Liversage 1960, 54)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 August 2012
References
Liversage, G.D. 1960 A Neolithic Site at Townleyhall Co. Louth. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 90 (1), 49-60.
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.