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2004:1112 - KILLYCRONEY, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth

Site name: KILLYCRONEY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH006-050

Licence number: 04E0516

Author: Kieran Campbell

Author/Organisation Address: 6 St Ultan's, Laytown, Drogheda

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 698139m, N 806088m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.994714, -6.503291

The site for a single house was near an enclosure site (SMR 6:51(01)) in Killycroney townland and a souterrain (SMR 6:50) in adjoining Crossabeagh townland. The souterrain was published by John P. Clarke in the County Louth Archaeological Journal at the time of its discovery in 1963 and was destroyed during a land reclamation scheme in the 1970s. Its former site is c. 120m west of the development site; the enclosure site, known from a cropmark on an aerial photograph, is c. 80m east of the development site. Monitoring of groundworks for the house revealed no indication of previous disturbance on the site.


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