Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Boolies Little, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolies Little
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62901, -6.42623
- SMR number
- ME033-002----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
T-shaped souterrain with beehive chamber at each end of cross passage. Main passage backfilled by fourteenth century. Associated with cemetery (ME033-002001-). Excavated by P. D. Sweetman in 1980. (RMAHS 1982-3, 42-57)
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.