Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Demesne, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Demesne
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.00557, -6.40923
- SMR number
- LH007-105----
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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
Discovered during construction work in 1981. The souterrain was drystone-built throughout and was roughly L-shaped in plan. Modern access to the souterrain was through a gap at the junction of two passages owing to a displaced lintel. Passage 1 (L 6m, Wth c. 1-1.6m, H 1.3m) extended E-W with a slight widening at the W end giving a chamber effect. At the E end of Passage 1, a second passage (L 5.1m, Wth c. 1-1.2m, H 1.2m) curved N-S, with a slight widening at the S end. No ancillary features were noted during investigation. Now inaccessible. (CLAJ 1982, 156)
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.