What is recorded here

Death and darkness are not the same. The chamber is an underground passage, not a grave. People built it to hide, watch or move through land when streets and roads could be watched. Mapastown keeps that much of the chamber visible because the function still shapes the place.

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 Air-vent of a Man-made underground passage discovered in 1965 in field immediately to S of graveyard (LH014-023----). Now inaccessible.

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