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Barrow - ring-barrow

Tullyallen, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Tullyallen, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tullyallen
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.72779, -6.39846
SMR number
LH024-046----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A multi-phase ring barrow (external diam. c. 13.2m), with a centrally placed cremation contained within a pottery vessel, was uncovered here in 2000 prior to construction of the M1 Motorway (Excavation Licence No. 00E0429). The ditch (max. D c. 1m; Wth 1.9m) displayed three distinct phases of activity and at least six token cremations were discovered in the SE quadrant of the final phase. (Chapple 2002, 242-3)

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 25 June 2013

References

Chapple, R. 2002 Tullyallen 1. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 242-3 (No. 715). Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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