County: Louth Site name: CARRICKALLAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH006–062 Licence number: 10E0068
Author: Kieran Campbell, 6 St Ultans, Laytown, Co. Meath.
Site type: Souterrain environs
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 699039m, N 806213m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.995664, -6.489518
The site for a single house was situated 120m to the north-west of LH006–062, a souterrain discovered in 1903 (Ua Cuinn 1904). On the map accompanying the 1904 report, the position of the souterrain is shown west of the farm lane, a different location to that indicated in the Record of Monuments and Places: Co. Louth, which is east of the lane in a hollow at the narrow north-west end of a field. This is the location indicated by Rynne (1961). However, information from the landowner places the souterrain in the ‘High Field’ which is the field due west of the RMP location and a more likely siting.
The development site was a small subcircular field with rock outcrops. The results of test-trenching by machine were consistent with the known history of the site as an area that had been quarried and subsequently backfilled and reclaimed.
References
Rynne, E. 1961 Souterrain at ‘Killylagan’, Cortial, County Louth. County Louth Archaeological Journal xv(1), 5–8.
Ua Cuinn, S. 1904 Some souterrains of Louth. County Louth Archaeological Journal i(1), 37–40.
