Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Whiterath, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whiterath
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92570, -6.41465
- SMR number
- LH012-065002-
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
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence 99E0485). Located beneath ringfort (LH012-065001-). U-shaped passage (L 28.1m; Wth c. 1m) with drystone walls and a lintelled roof. Majority of lintels were robbed probably sometime in the post-medieval period. Two levels with a chamber at the lower level. Finds recovered included Souterrain ware pottery, a bone bead necklace, a bronze panel with an enamel interlace decoration, iron slag and a large quantity of animal bone. (Ó Drisceoil 2002, 244)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 April 2012
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2002 Site 2, Whiterath in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 244 (No. 721). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.