Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cragballyconoal, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragballyconoal
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05332, -9.11861
- SMR number
- CL005-160044-
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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 N half of a cashel (CL005-160017-) in elevated rocky pasture on a SW-facing slope overlooked by higher ground to the N and E with extensive views to the S and W. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). The enclosing cashel is hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Described by Westropp (1899, 372) as a ‘straight souterrain, 3 feet wide, leading under the [cashel] wall’. A souterrain defined by a trench (L 7m; Wth 1.2-1.6m; D 0.6m) extending N from the centre of the cashel garth. Stone lintels survive at the S end. The trench is filled with rubble along the centre and with earth at its S end. It is unclear if the souterrain extends beneath the cashel wall at N. A cashel (CL005-160019-) with a souterrain (CL005-160045-) is located c. 80m to the S, and an enclosure (CL005-160051-) is located c. 50m to the N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 7 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.