Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monasterboice
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.77815, -6.41832
- SMR number
- LH021-062015-
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
Situated outside the NW corner of Monasterboice graveyard but within the inner ecclesiastical enclosure (LH021-062001-). It is described as consisting of two, largely rock-cut chambers each '15 feet by 4' 6 inches (c. 4.6m x c. 1.4m5)' connected by a passage '5 feet high (c. 1.5m)' according to Keenan (1945, 52). It is now inaccessible. (Roe 1981, 76-8)
The above 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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 11 May 2016
References
Roe, H.M. 1981 Monasterboice and its monuments. Dundalk. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society.
Keenan, T. M. 1945 Townland Survey of County Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 9, 1, 52-7.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.