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  • Drumena Cashel and Souterrain

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • Archaeology & Monuments

    7 Moneyscalp Road, Kilcoo
    Newry
    BT34 5JX
    United Kingdom

    Contact

    Phone: 028 9082 3207
    Email: scmenquiries@communities-ni.gov.uk

    Additional Information

    Open to the public: Yes, entry is free (Sometimes public access is restricted due to works for example. Check before you visit)
    Grid reference: J3113034030
    View on the Historic Environment Map Viewer
    SM number: DOW 043:063
    View details on the NI Sites & Monuments Record (NISMR)

    About Drumena Cashel and Souterrain

    The oval cashel, has a wall 2.7–3.6m thick, partly rebuilt after excavation in 1925–1926. The gap to the east may be the original entrance rather than the narrow modern approach gap. Confused stones in the south part of the enclosure seem to be remains of house foundations. In the south-west area is a T-shaped souterrain (accessible), its walls of drystone construction and its roof lintelled (some lintels are replaced in concrete). The original entrance to the souterrain was by its south east arm. Though not closely datable from excavated finds, this is a good example of a stone farmstead enclosure of the Early Christian period. There are other cashels in this rocky upland area.

    Other historic places you can visit:

    • Love Heritage NI
    Drumena Cashel and Souterrain
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