Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballymascanlan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymascanlan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.03345, -6.36467
- SMR number
- LH004-127002-
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
Discovered during roadworks in 1973. Access was gained through a collapsed lintel in the middle of a passage. The souterrain in its present state consists of a section of drystone-built passage (L c. 7m, Wth c. 1.2m, H c. 1.5m) blocked by collapse at both ends. (CLAJ 1973, 85). Evidence for a probable associated enclosure (LH004-127001-) was subsequently uncovered in 1996.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.