Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballymakellett, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymakellett
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.03866, -6.31257
- SMR number
- LH004-129----
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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
Isolated souterrain, discovered during house construction in 1984. Located on a spur of land forming a terrace on the S slopes of the Cooley Mountains. The modern entrance, owing to a displaced lintel, is in the middle of the souterrain. The present extent of the souterain is a drystone-built passage (L 10.1m, Wth 0.7m, H 0.9m) curving gently from NNE-SSW. The passage is blocked at both ends by collapse and may have originally extended further.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.