Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballynahown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06488, -9.33470
- SMR number
- CL004-062002-
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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 SE quadrant of a cashel (CL005-062----) and overgrown with blackthorn. Cunningham (1980, 21) refers to a souterrain ‘in the valley at the south face of the cliff’ although wrongly attributes it to the cashel named ‘Cahernagrian’ (CL004-060----) located c. 52m to the NNW. A stony hollow (L 4m E-W; max. Wth 2m; D 1.4m) is likely associated with the souterrain and further to the N (L 4m) a cavity (L 0.5m) roofed with lintels opens to the NNW (H 0.8m; Wth 0.6m) but is inaccessible. A raised stony area located to the W and NW of the opening may be an associated feature.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 10 October 2022
References
Cunningham, G. 1980 Burren journey West. Shannonside Mid-Western Regional Tourism Organisation.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.