Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Newquay, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newquay
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.15295, -9.09837
- SMR number
- CL003-004002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On good pastureland, near the top of a low but moderately steep NE-facing slope within a ringfort (CL005-004----). The ringfort is hachured and named ‘Lissavorneen’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lios an Boirnín on Robinson’s map (1977). The souterrain is not marked on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but is indicated and named ‘cave’ on the 1915 ed. A square depression (1m x 1m; D 0.7m) with some drystone walling on its S side is visible in the SW sector of the ringfort.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 15 December 2020
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.