Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.73369, -6.39710
- SMR number
- LH024-043001-
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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
An L- shaped souterrain with a collapsed beehive chamber at one end was uncovered here in 2000 prior road construction of the M1 motorway (Excavation Licence 00E0631). The walls were of drystone construction. The total length of the souterrain was 36.88m and its roof (of lintels) was intact for almost one third of this. The average width of the passage was 0.72m and its height was 1.1m. At about mid-length there was a step c. 0.45m in height. A number of sherds of Carrowkeel ware pottery were recovered from the souterrain together with a bronze mount decorated with openwork interlace. Six sections of earthworks (LH024-043002-) were excavated in the vicinity. (Breen 2002, 235-6)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 June 2013
References
Breen, T. 2002 Mell 3. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 235-7 (No. 696). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.