Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Millockstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Millockstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82619, -6.51384
- SMR number
- LH017-054005-
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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
Excavated in 1980 (Manning 1986) as part of a group of monuments (see also LH017-054001-, LH017-054002-, LH017-054003-, LH017-054004- and LH017-054006-). The souterrain consisted of a passage (L 5m) extending E to a drop-hole which gave access to a second passage (L 5m, Wth 0.8m, H 1m) at a lower level, gently curving NW-SE and terminating in a beehive chamber (diam. 2.7m, H 1.7m). There was a small recess (L 0.4m, Wth 0.4-0.6m, H 0.7m) in the NE side of the lower passage. The souterrain was drystone-built of local greywacke throughout. (PRIA C 1986, 135-81)
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.