What is recorded here

Cortial is a children's burial ground in County Louth, Ireland. A trapezoidal platform stretches twenty-six metres east-west and twenty-three metres north-south, with a height of about one metre. Its steep sides and stone-strewn surface suggest a place set apart for the smallest dead. The nearby underground passage deepens the mystery of how far human hands reached into the earth there.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 A trapezoidal platform (max. dims. 26m E-W, 23m N-S, H c. 1m) with a very slight, and in places much-degraded, bank around its perimeter. The platform is quite steep-sided in places and its surface is strewn with large stones. There is no obvious evidence of any structure within the enclosed area. Man-made underground passage LH006-052002- is situated just to the E of the site. (CLAJ 1942, 106; CLAJ 1961, 5)

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