What is recorded here

Stumpa holds a man-made underground passage beside The Ship's Temple, now closed to everyone. It is not a natural cave nor a modern tunnel, but a deliberate opening in the Louth earth. People may have built it to hide, worship, exclude others or preserve something they believed would not survive ordinary life.

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 Located in field immediately adjoining 'The Ship's Temple' (LH003-044001-) (CLAJ 1915, 346). Now inaccessible.

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