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Stone Circle in Ballymakellett

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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). Immediately NW of entrance to ringfort (LH004-084001-). The site consists of a hut site, broadly…

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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). Immediately NW of entrance to ringfort (LH004-084001-). The site consists of a hut site, broadly oval in shape (int. dims. 6m E-W, 4.7m N-S), with an earth and stone wall enclosing the interior. The E half of the hut site is enclosed by large boulders (H 0.5m) set into the face of the hill slope, with stone-lined entrance gap at SSW. In the W of the interior is a depression, sub-rectangular in plan (1.3m E-W, 1.1m N-S, D 0.8m), partly lined with stone. A long depression (D 0.7m) extends from this to WNW, through a gap in the bank and on down to the ravine. There are similarities to the excavated iron working site at Glannafeen, Co. Cork (JRSAI 1955, 94-9), but the depression may equally represent the remains of a hearth or cooking pit and drain.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH004-084003

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