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Souterrain

Craggagh, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Craggagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09587, -9.29682
SMR number
CL004-016045-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 SW sector of ‘Craggagh fort’, a large poorly preserved cashel (CL004-016002-). An E–W orientated souterrain visible as a hollow (L 10m; W 5m; max. D 1.2m), along the southern edge of which runs an arcing bank of stone. A circular hut site (CL004-016035-) is located N of its E end, in the centre of the cashel and later field walls subdivide the cashel in three.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 28 April 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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