County: Louth Site name: HILL OF RATH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0088
Author: Carmel Duffy, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 704610m, N 777859m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.739873, -6.414258
During topsoil-stripping for 830m of the road-take of the Northern Motorway, where it ran 300m from the urnfield site marked on the SMR, a large number of archaeological features came to light. They are all described individually in Excavations 2000 (see No. 686, 00E0179 and No. 688, 00E0535).
Umberstown Great, Summerhill, Co. Meath
