What is recorded here

Faughart Lower holds a man-made underground passage tied to a nearby enclosure, suggesting people dug through solid earth rather than waiting for nature to provide a hole. The deliberate construction turns the region into a place where human ambition met resistance and broke through. Darkness may have hidden the work, but intent shaped the result.

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' associated with enclosure site (LH004-063001-).

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