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
- 53.05482, -9.12132
- SMR number
- CL005-160043-
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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
Inside the N perimeter wall of a cashel (CL005-160012-) located in elevated pasture on a natural outcrop with commanding views from SSE to NW. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). A souterrain set within an oval enclosed area abutting the interior N perimeter of the cashel. The entrance to the souterrain is visible as an exposed stone lintel with a narrow rubble-filled opening beneath (Wth 0.2m; H 0.5m) that extends N for at least 1.5m.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 7 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.