Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Donaghmore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.99356, -6.43272
- SMR number
- LH007-063001-
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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: 6 December 2011
Wrongly ascribed to Thomastown townland by Tempest (CLAJ 1912, 23-3). The souterrain is recorded as consisting of a circular chamber at the W end, with a passage leading off E to three sub-rectangular chambers leading off one another and connected by creeps (Wth 1m, H 0.9m). Total length of souterrain 18.9m. The end chamber was capped by a millstone which may be a later insertion to close a breach in the roof. Now inaccessible.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.