Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Riverstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Riverstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.87037, -6.51700
- SMR number
- LH014-046----
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
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
Drystone-built souterrain, L-shaped in plan, consisting of two passages and a beehive chamber. Passage 1 (L 8m, Wth 1.2m, H 1.3m) gently curves NE-W, terminating in drop-hole which gives access to Passage 2 (L 10.5m, Wth 1.1m, H 1.4m) running E-W (5.2m) then turning N-S (5.3m). This passage terminates at N end in a beehive chamber (diam. 2.4m, H 1.4m).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.