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Souterrain

Lisrenny (Ardee by; Tallanstown par.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Lisrenny (Ardee by, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lisrenny (Ardee by; Tallanstown par.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Cave
Coordinates
53.90462, -6.53578
SMR number
LH014-007----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Complex drystone-built souterrain, roughly T-shaped in plan, consisting of a passage (L 4.5m, Wth 0.9m, H 0.8m) sloping down to the NNE and terminating in a sub-rectangular corbelled chamber. A second passage (L 6.7m, Wth 1.1m, H 1m) extends WNW from the chamber and terminates in a beehive chamber (dims. 2.1m by 2.9m, H 2m). On the ESE side of the first chamber a step (H 0.4m) gives access to a third passage (L 3m, Wth 0.3m, H 0.8m) leading ESE and blocked by collapse. There is a horseshoe-shaped recess (L 1.1m, Wth 0.7m, H 0.5m) in the WNW side of the first chamber at an upper level directly over the second passage. (CLAJ 1958, 93-5)

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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