Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Behagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Behagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13791, -9.06362
- SMR number
- CL003-018001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the interior of a poorly preserved cashel at the W end of the summit of a low E–W ridge of good mixed pasture and meadowland. A dense patch of vegetation in the N sector (4m E–W x 2m N–S), may indicate the presence of a souterrain.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 15 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.