Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Littlemill, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littlemill
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98630, -6.43555
- SMR number
- LH007-195----
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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
Discovered during harvesting in October 2017, the souterrain is on the northern flank of a low rise in a tillage field. It consists of an end gallery or expanded passage (L 10.7m, Wth 2.25m, H 1.65m) aligned E-W. There is a decrease in width and height towards the east end (Wth 1.5m, H 1.55m). Several animal bones, including horse bones, were recovered lying loose on the floor. The modern opening in the roof (L 1.3m, Wth 1.2m, D 0.7m) is where a lintel has collapsed 1.5m from the W end. At the east end of the passage there is a turn south to a second passage (L 2.7m, W 1.5m) which is blocked with soil to the lintels. The walls are drystone-built and roofed with lintels resting on corbels. (Campbell et al. 2018, 188)
Compiled by: Kieran Campbell
Uploaded on: 24 October 2019
References
Campbell, K., Shaw, R. and G. Devlin 2018 3D Laser Scanning of Two Souterrains at Littlemill, Co. Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, XIX, 2, 182-93.
Nearby in the register
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.