What is recorded here
Under Loughanmore, a man-made passage waits in darkness, local memory shaping it into a cave rather than admitting it is a tunnel. That refusal is interesting: people invent broad cave myths before they accept narrow human intent. The ground above may have hidden a road, a boundary, a refuge or a joke told with stone. Whatever it was, it still works because it denies easy understanding.
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'. (IFC Schools MSS 660, 108)
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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