What is recorded here

Destroy Rokeby's cave and you erase the first chamber men ever built. That is the temptation, but the cave is gone. Under the floor lives a black tube, narrow enough to force two bodies into one another. Walk it until the rock stops answering your foot. Then the chamber appears, not as a room but as a mouth waiting to swallow the walker. What you seek is not gold or glory. You are the offering.

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' in a tree-ring. Now destroyed. (IFC Schools MSS 674, 157).

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.