Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
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
- 53.72117, -6.45119
- SMR number
- LH024-008001-
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
Beneath the megalithic tomb (LH024-008002-) excavated by G. Eogan in 1960 was a layer of occupation refuse (L 15.7m NW-SE, max. Wth 11m) in association with numerous stake-holes and hearths. This suggested to the excavator that occupation on the site was of a recurrent semi-permanent nature and that the structures revealed were probably of a tent or hut-like nature. Artifacts recovered in the course of excavation included hollow scrapers and end scrapers of flint. There were also numerous sherds of passage tomb and Sandhills Neolithic pottery, with a smaller percentage of Western Neolithic ware. (JRSAI 1963, 37-81)
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.