Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical residence
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
- 53.71577, -6.34813
- SMR number
- LH024-041078-
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
Remains of the archbishop's palace were exposed during pre-development excavation at the site of the former Drogheda Grammar School in 1998 (Excavation Licence No. 98E0544). Built by Primate Christopher Hampton in 1613. Little of the residence survived save the external W wall and part of its bricked floor. This floor sealed the remains of earlier medieval structures (LH024-041076-). Found in association with a number of other medieval buildings (LH024-041068-, LH024-041069-, LH024-041072- and LH024-041077-), two medieval corn-drying kilns (LH024-041070- and LH024-041074-) and a lime kiln (LH024-041073-). (Murphy 2000, 199)
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.