Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Dowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70529, -6.44011
- SMR number
- ME020-098001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Recorded by C. Ní Lionáin in excavating (17E0242) the passage tomb (ME020-098----) under Dowth Hall. About 7m NW of Tomb 2 a cut in the cairn material (dims 2.6m NNW-SSE; 1.5m ENE-WSW; D 0.48m) was lined on each side except the S with drystone walling which is the drop-down entry to a passage (L 2.05m plus; Wth 0.7m) that had been provided with a clay floor with a step at S before running into unexcavated ground. The passage was filled with rounded stones in a brown silty sand beneath a yellow brown silt. The souterrain extended into the chamber of tomb 2 and was responsible for the drystone walling on its N side (Ní Lionáin 2022). (Ní Lionáin 2021, 55)
See the attached view of the passage at Tomb 2 looking NW by Ken Williams;
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 October 2022
References
Ní Lionáin, C. 2022 Remembering a long-lost Monument. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 36, 3. No. 141
Ní Lionáin, C. 2021 Monitoring and Testing of Phase 1 Groundworks at Dowth Hall, Co. Meath. Licence: 17E0242. Preliminary unpublished report, Devenish
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- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Passage tomb artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.