Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilcurry, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcurry
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.04637, -6.43715
- SMR number
- LH004-054----
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
Consists of a passage (L c. 9m, Wth c. 1.1m, H c. 1.1m) running WSW and ending in an expanded terminal (Wth c. 2m). Step dropping c. 0.45m in the middle of the SSE side of the expanded terminal gives access to a gallery (L c. 7.2m, Wth c. 1.1m, H c. 1.2m) extending SSE. (CLAJ 1957, 37)
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.