Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballycahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09750, -9.14292
- SMR number
- CL005-054002-
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 NW sector of Cahernahooan cashel (CL005-054----). A souterrain, visible as a lintelled entrance (Wth 0.45m; H 0.25m) to a space that extends to WNW (min. L 2m). Hollows to the S and E probably indicate another extension in that direction.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL005-054002-_01.jpg View of souterrain entrance.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 8 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.