Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloghanmoyle, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanmoyle
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.89744, -6.61735
- SMR number
- LH013-021----
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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
Situated on an outcrop hillock. Drystone-built souterrain consisting of a sub-circular beehive chamber (diam. 2.8m, H 1.3m) with a passage (L 14.5m, W 0.8m, H 1.2m) extending SE, then gently curving S. A second passage (L 8.5m, Wth 0.8m, H 1.1m) extends NE from the middle of the first passage. A third passage (L 6.5m, Wth 0.7m, H 0.7m) runs W from the S end of the first passage and terminates in a rectangular chamber (L 4.5m, Wth 1.5m, H 1.6m) aligned NE-SW. (IFC Schools MSS 668, 80-1; CLAJ 1912-15, 26)
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.