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Souterrain

Cragballyconoal, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Cragballyconoal, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cragballyconoal
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Cave
Coordinates
53.05230, -9.11809
SMR number
CL005-160045-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 N half of a cashel (CL005-160019-) in elevated rocky pasture overlooked by higher ground to the N and E with extensive views to the W. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). The enclosing cashel is hachured and named ‘Fort & Cave’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Westropp (1899, 372) noted that the ‘souterrain forms an S-curve under the wall [of the cashel]’. A curvilinear souterrain most clearly defined in the NW quadrant of the garth as a section of roofed passage (L 2.8m). From here an unroofed section of the passage curves SE (Wth 0.8-0.9m; D 0.4-0.6m), before turning SW (L 9m) to reach a circular depression (diam. 2-3m) representing a possible chamber.

 

Westropp, T.J. 1899 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 9(4), 367-384. 

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 7 October 2025

References

Westropp, T.J. 1899 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 367-84.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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