Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Lagavooren, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lagavooren
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71240, -6.35110
- SMR number
- LH024-041061-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during pre-development excavation in 1996 (Excavation Licence No. 96E0160). Excavation revealed a series of eight burgage walls running in a N-S direction, dating to the twelfth/thirteenth-centuries. Finds recovered include worked leather, a leather purse, leather shoes and medieval pottery. (pers. comm. Eoin Corcoran (Archaeological Consultancy Services Limited))
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 29 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Tanneryunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
- Stoup (present location)under 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.