Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71829, -6.37514
- SMR number
- LH024-012001-
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
The site consisted of two sections of souterrain and a cemetery site (LH024-012003-) within an enclosure (LH024-012004-) discovered during pipe-laying. The two sections of souterrain were situated 8-10m apart. The E section of the souterrain consisted of a drystone-built passage (L 2m). The W section consisted of part of a delintelled circular chamber.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.