What is recorded here

One chamber, one roof, one name on the wall: the D'Arcy vault at Houndswood, Castletown and Ballykine. Built in the 1800s with a stepped limestone cap and a stone urn at its peak, it still stands inside its own small drystone court. The north entrance is unsealed but partly blocked, as if the house remembered more than it wished to admit.

Located slightly W of centre within a graveyard (MA123-005002-). Indicated as 'Vault' on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. A 19th-century stone-built vaulted tomb (3.55m N-S; 3.45m E-W; H 2m), topped by a stepped arrangement of finely cut limestone slabs with the apex surmounted by a decorative stone urn. A slab set in the S wall carries a dedication to the D'Arcy family of Houndswood, Castletown and Ballykine. The entrance to the vault is at N and is unsealed, though partly blocked by later drystone walling. The tomb stands within a square enclosure (7.1m E–W; 7.4m N–S) delimited by a roughly-built drystone wall. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 July 2015

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