Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Oughtdarra, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtdarra
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05878, -9.33928
- SMR number
- CL004-057004-
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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
A souterrain ‘said to be 30yds SSW of church’ is noted on the SMR file (‘OPW files, Sheet 4’). On field inspection in 1998 the souterrain was not visible. Warren (1892, 445-6) references a letter of 1780 published in the ‘Saunders News-letter’ from ‘Burren, in the county of Clare’, describing an underground stone-cut burial chamber or crypt with an undated memorial stone ‘near the Abbey of St Daragh’. It is unclear if this is the location in question of if it is to this that the OPW note refers.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 10 October 2022
References
Warren, T. 1892 Alleged discovery in Co. Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 2, 445-7.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.