Linear earthwork in Cookstown, County Louth

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What is recorded here

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). 2-5m, H 1m) passing along the N side of a mearing which divides the townlands of Cookstown and Tattyboys. This is reputedly a part of the Pale boundary, but is dismissed as such by Tempest (CLAJ 1931, 435).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH014-057

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