Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Follistown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Follistown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- ME025-066----
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The National Monuments Service's description
An underground passage was discovered in digging a well in the back garden of a house at Follistown in 1974. It is described (SMR file) as a large beehive chamber (diam. 2m) with a passage running NW (L 5.25m; H c. 0.75m) that met a cross-passage (L c. 5.5m; H c. 1.1m) at a T-junction but both arms of this passage were blocked with collapse. No further details of the discovery are available and other than the townland name its location is not known.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 March 2023
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