Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knocknagroagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagroagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.09879, -9.15525
- SMR number
- CL005-044002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In the W sector of a rath (CL005-044----). Indicated and named ‘cave’ on the 1916 ed. 6-inch map. An overgrown, partially unroofed souterrain (L 3.5m; Wth 2m; D at SE end 0.6m) orientated NW to SE with a roofed lintel leading to an inaccessible room at its NW end. 2m E of the roofed room, a large boulder (L 1.8m) and another collapsed hollow may mark another room.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 16 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.