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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: 21 June 2012
Revised by: Claire Breen
Situated on a natural terrace on the SW slope of an E-W ridge. Complex site discovered during land reclamation and partially excavated by C. Manning in 1980. Consists of two souterrains (LH017-054004- and LH017-054005-) within an oval enclosure (LH017-054003-) which contained over 50 lintelled graves (LH017-054006-). This is adjudged by the excavator to be the third phase of activity on the site. The oval enclosure, which measured c. 100m E-W by 40m N-S, was defined by a ditch (Manning 1986, fig 3, ditch 3) up to 2.8m wide and 1.5m deep. The cemetery (LH017-054006-) was located near its centre. The second phase is a ringfort (LH017-054002-). The initial phase was an irregularly-shaped enclosure (LH017-054001-). In completing land reclamation the two souterrains were left intact but inaccessible and much of the stratigraphy on the northern half of the site was left undisturbed.
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