Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kane, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kane
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.03563, -6.47463
- SMR number
- LH003-042003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
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
Situated within graveyard (LH003-042001-). The present entrance is located outside the cemetery wall, and gives access to a sub-rectangular chamber (L 3m, Wth 1.5m) aligned NW-SE with a passage (L 13m, Wth 1m, H 1.1m) leading off SW and terminating in a drop-hole which gives access to a sub-circular chamber (diam. 2.5m, H 1.6m). A second passage (L 6.5m, Wth 1.1m, H 1.3m) extends W from the second chamber and is blocked by collapse at the W end. (CLAJ 1979, 211-12)
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.