Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carn More, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn More
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03619, -6.40791
- SMR number
- LH004-067002-
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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
Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence 03E0867). Associated with ringfort (LH004-067001-). W-shaped gallery (L 19m; Wth c. 0.9m; H 1m), of drystone construction with no chambers. Capstones not present, human bone was recovered from the backfill. (Delaney 2006, 340)
Reference:
Delaney S. (2006) 'Carn More, Faughart Neolithic; Ringfort and Souterrain' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (1272). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.