Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Faughart Lower, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Lower
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Megalithic Structure
- Coordinates
- 54.04642, -6.39332
- SMR number
- LH004-062----
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
This wedge-shaped chamber is incorporated in a field boundary. The N, S and E sides each consist of a split boulder. Two imbricated stones represent an entrance opening to the SW. The chamber is covered by a single roof stone. Although the remains appear to be those of a small passage-tomb with an angled entrance, they are best left unclassified pending further investigation.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.