Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Liberties of Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liberties of Carlingford
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04328, -6.18698
- SMR number
- LH005-042022-
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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
A section of a souterrain passage was discovered inside King John’s Castle (LH004-042002-) during 2016 just W of the cross-wall. It consists of a NE-SW passage (L c. 10m) which was entered by a sloping unroofed passage (L 3m) at the NE and might have been cut at its SW end by the walls of the gatehouse. Close to its SW end a passage ran SE (L c. 2.5m) and then SW (L c. 3.5m). This section of passage (Wth 1.2m; H c. 0.9-1.3m) was of drystone walls corbelling in at the top but lacking any roof-stones. Another passage might have continued SE from the turn. The souterrain will be preserved in situ but will be inaccessible. (Halpin 2017)
Date of upload: 23 April, 2018
References
Halpin, E. 2017 Method statement for Phase 4 testing in advance of proposed development works at King John's Castle, Carlingfort, Co. Louth. Ministerial Conset No. C306. Unpublished report, Archaeology and Heritage Consultancy
Nearby in the register
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- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.