Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.72798, -6.39709
- SMR number
- LH024-062----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0430). Located immediately to W of a Bronze Age enclosure (LH024-063----) and just N of a cemetery (LH024-054----) and cremation pyre (LH024-055----). Consisted of an annular ditch (average Wth 0.4m; D 0.45m) with an external diam. of c. 9 m. Finds recovered included pottery, flint, possible slag and burnt and unburnt bone. (Chapple 2003, 267)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 03 July 2013
References
Chapple, R. 2003 Mell 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 266-7, no. 869. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.