Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballinloughan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinloughan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.98963, -6.53381
- SMR number
- LH006-128----
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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
Situated at summit of a natural outcropping hillock. Described (CLAJ 1904, 38 and fig. II) as a passage (L 6.7m) extending in a gentle curve from N to SE. At its N end the passage is blocked by collapse, but a chamber extends 4m to W from the NW side of the passage. At the S end of the passage, a drop-hole creep gives access to a lower, partially rock-cut passage (L c. 6m) which extends in a curve from N-E-S. This passage terminates in a sub-circular chamber (max. dims. 4m by 3m). The overall length of the soutterain is 22.7m. (See also LH006-105----).
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.