What is recorded here

Danish invaders were said to have been buried in the fields around Bellurgan, and local memory preserved two underground passages where their graves may have lay. One appears in the field called Danes Graveyard, the other in the adjoining field to the north west. The story gives the passage a violent birth and a hidden shape, as if the ground still keeps what the battle took.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Local tradition of a 'cave' in field known as 'Danes' Graveyard'; also local tradition of another in field adjoining to the NW.

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