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Souterrain

Ballymascanlan, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Ballymascanlan, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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