What is recorded here

Killally holds a man-made underground passage that local memory shapes into a cave, though human hands built it. The chamber may have served trade, belief or concealment before the name faded. A person could have entered with a lantern, heard water move through stone and left with more questions than answers.

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' (CLAJ 1936, 354).

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.