What is recorded here

Hitchestown hides a man-made underground passage that local memory still calls a cave. People may have dug it to store goods, hide from storms or simply because curiosity drives humans into the earth. The soil above forgets the shape below, but the passage remains a hollow tongue waiting for someone to speak into it.

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 672, 180)

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