Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Castletown (dundalk Upper By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (dundalk Upper By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dun Dealgan (Souterrain)
- Coordinates
- 54.01365, -6.43013
- SMR number
- LH007-118008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located in slope on S side of 'Dun Dealgan' motte (LH007-118007-). The souterrain consists of three-drystone-built passages forming a Z-shaped plan. The first passage (L 3.9m) extends SW-NE, turning sharply NW to form Passage 2 (L 7.8m). At the NW end of Passage 2 there is a sharp turn into Passage 3 (L 5.8m) which runs S-N. (CLAJ 1912, 25-6).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Cist (present location)under 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.