Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Hill of Rath, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hill of Rath
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.74027, -6.40040
- SMR number
- LH024-060----
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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 series of stake holes that formed no coherent pattern, and spreads of occupation material were excavated here prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0535, Area D). Ten sherds of decorated Neolithic pottery of Linkardstown type belonging to one pot were recovered from one posthole. Two of the spreads of occupation material also contained sherds of Neolithic pottery. (Duffy 2002, 231)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 03 July 2013
References
Duffy, C. 2002 Hill of Rath. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 231-3 (No. 688). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cremated remainsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.