Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Marshes Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marshes Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97937, -6.37899
- SMR number
- LH007-083----
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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
Excavated by M. Gowen in 1982 in advance of construction work. The site consisted of two souterrains within an oval enclosure (diam. 40m by 60m) (LH007-139----). The first souterrain (LH007-083----) T-shaped in plan, consisted of a passage (L 11m, Wth 1.1-5m) running W from the original rock-cut ramp entrance at the E. At the W end of the passage is gallery (L 18m, Wth 1.3-1.7m) ran S and another section of the same gallery (L 10m, Wth 1.6-2m) ran NW. The second souterrain (LH007-084----), roughly U-shaped in plan, consisted of a simple passage (L 25m, Wth 0.6-1m, H 1.4-1.6m) curving gently N-WSW.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.