Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killally (dundalk Upper By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killally (dundalk Upper By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.97632, -6.41965
- SMR number
- LH007-108002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
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 on summit of E-W ridge. Discovered during ploughing in 1987 and reclosed. Two lintels of drystone-built passage, completely blocked by collapse, were seen in sides of modern entrance gap. Traces of a fosse, visible as a cropmark at ground level, are recorded (see enclosure LH007-108001-). This souterrain and souterrain LH007-108003-, 18m to the SE, were probably originally within this enclosure. Tradition of souterrain in adjacent field. (See LH007-109----).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.