What is recorded here

Kilcurly is where a man-made underground passage was destroyed during land reclamation in 1987. The lost passage may have contained a chamber, a cache or a place of ritual, but no one records what it held. What is known is that people built it, used it, forgot it, and then erased it while making the land productive.

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 Located on E slope of a drumlin. Discovered and subsequently destroyed during land reclamation in 1987. Located 8m SW of LH006-110001-. It consisted of a section of drystone-built passage (L 8.5m) extending N-S, with an expanded terminal at the S. At the N end, features of the drystone walling suggest a former drop-hole entrance. Measurements are inexact or not available owing to the largely destroyed nature of the site at the time of inspection.

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