Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tannery
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
- 53.71282, -6.35172
- SMR number
- LH024-041067-
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 archaeological test trenching in 1999 (Excavation Licence 98E0250). The remains of two tannery buildings were uncovered and recorded together with deposits of cinder and charcoal contained within wood-lined tanning pits. (Conway 2000, 197)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 29 August 2012
References
Conway, M. 2000 John Street, Drogheda. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 195-7 (No. 571). Bray. Wordwell.
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