Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Bellurgan (dundalk Lwr By; Castletown Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellurgan (dundalk Lwr By; Castletown Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.03427, -6.34571
- SMR number
- LH004-132----
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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
Uncovered during construction work for a dwelling in 2001. On inspection Noel Ross (CLAJ 2000, 563-5) found a drystone built passage with lintelled roof and sufficient evidence to show that it was the same souterrain described by Edward Tipping in 1864 (JRSAI, 8 (1864-6), 183-4). Tipping noted that removal of a lintel revealed a passage 'about four feet high, and three wide, inclining downwards in a direction parallel to the slope of the bank. After twenty-three feet it turns at a right angle to the left, or towards the river; and, continuing thirteen feet six inches further, terminates, apparently built up square; but in the floor was seen a square hole, descending which, we find at a level about three feet lower, a continuation nineteen feet long, and in the same direction, which finally terminates in a circular space or chamber, both wider and higher than the passage leading to it.'
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 18 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.