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
- 53.05504, -9.11581
- SMR number
- CL005-160046-
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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 SE quadrant of a cashel (CL005-160020-) in elevated rocky pasture surrounded by level ground with restricted views and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). The enclosing cashel is hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps, but the souterrain is not indicated. An L-plan souterrain with an opening (L 0.8m; Wth 0.8m) to the SE of the centre of the cashel garth. The passage is rock-cut and roofed with stone lintels for most of its course; it runs SE (L 4m; Wth 0.75m; H 0.85-0.95m), before turning NNE (L 6m; Wth 0.9-1.1m; H 0.9-1m), terminating in a rock-cut V. A small aumbry (L 0.3; Wth 0.3m; D 0.3m) is located in the SE wall of the latter section of the passage. A large subrectangular enclosure (CL005-160052-) abuts the N side of the cashel.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 7 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.