Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Moneymore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneymore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71589, -6.34891
- SMR number
- LH024-041068-
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
Discovered during pre-development excavation at the site of the former Drogheda Grammar School in 1998 (Excavation Licence No. 98E0544). The remains of a medieval building (L 15.7m; Wth 4.6m) were found sealed below 14th century garden soil. The E-W walls survived but the N-S walls were partially destroyed by later activity. The walls were clay bonded and measured 0.8m in thickness. There was a doorway in the W wall. Found in association with a number of other medieval buildings (see also LH024-041069-, LH024-041072-, LH024-041075-, LH024-041076- and LH024-041077-), the remains of the Archbishops palace (LH024-041078-), two medieval corn-drying kins (LH024-041070- and LH024-041074-), and a lime kiln (LH024-041073-). (Murphy 2000, 199-200)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 29 August 2012
References
Murphy, Deirdre. 2000 Former Drogheda Grammar School, Laurence's Street, Drogheda. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 199-200 (No. 574). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.