What is recorded here

Dogstown holds a roofless chamber and narrow passage buried beneath Clump field, waiting for someone brave enough to stop pretending the ground is empty. The shape is not subtle: a circular room nine feet across, then a long low throat stretching northwest like a breath held underground. That is enough to imagine people living above it, hearing it, avoiding it, or returning to it when the field quietened.

Situated in a fairly level landscape. A Man-made underground passage was discovered c. 1930 while digging for gravel in a field known as the ‘Clump field’, a reference to the barrow (ME036-037----) c. 100m to the N. It was described after the event (NMI file) as a circular chamber ‘diam. 9 feet (c. 2.75m)’ with a passage ’16 feet (c. 4.9m) long by 3 feet (c. 0.9m) wide’ extending off to the NW. The passage was described as ‘roofless and 1 foot (c. 0.3m) high at the entrance to 5 feet high (c. 1.5m) at the chamber’. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 5 July 2019

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