Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Haggardstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haggardstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96175, -6.38335
- SMR number
- LH012-085----
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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 in September 2003 during construction work for a housing development. Destroyed prior to inspection by the NMS or NMI. Recorded by Micheál McKeown before destruction as a trapezoidal shaped passage (Wth at floor level c. 0.9m; Wth at roof level c. 0.4m, H 0.9m-1.1m) leading out of a beehive chamber (diam. c. 1.3m, H c. 1.6m). The passage ran initially in a northerly direction for c. 8m and then curved towards the NE and continued for c. 7.3m where it was blocked by collapsed soil and stone. A recess was noted on both the E and W wall c. midway along the passage and also on either side of the junction of the passage and chamber. Finds included a sherd of pottery and a piece of flint. (McKeown, CLAJ 2003, 271-4).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 May 2012
References
McKeown, M. 2003 Three New Souterrains near Dundalk in Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. XXXV, No. 3.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.