County: Louth Site name: BALGATHERAN 3
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Kieran Campbell, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 704703m, N 779241m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.752266, -6.412382
The site of a modern hedge-burning pyre, on shattered shale bedrock, superficially resembled a fulacht fiadh. This was noted during work on the Northern Motorway (Drogheda bypass).
6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda
