Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.05214, -6.38630
- SMR number
- LH004-023003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 near the motte (LH004-023001-). Souterrain, roughly Z-shaped in plan, consisting of a gently curving passage running N-SW, with a second passage at the SW end turning S then E to form a third passage. (JRSAI 1906, 74; CLAJ 1966, 111-12)
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.