Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballymihil, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymihil
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06125, -9.12259
- SMR number
- CL005-160041-
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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 centre of a cashel (CL005-160010-) in elevated rocky pasture with clear views over lower ground to SW and W. Within a multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). A souterrain aligned N-S, comprising a passage, visible as a linear hollow (L 2.3m; Wth 0.9m; D 0.6m), leading S to a circular depression (diam. 3m; D 0.5m) representing the remains of a collapsed chamber. The N section (L 1.4m) of the passage is roofed by single stone lintel.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 7 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.