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Souterrain

Teergonean, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Teergonean, 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
Teergonean
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02736, -9.38873
SMR number
CL008-001004-

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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

Within a cashel (CL009-001003-). This souterrain is defined by a circular depression in the S centre of the interior, possibly a collapsed chamber, which opens into an underground passage (L 6.7m; Wth 1.6m; max. H 1.27m) extending NNW; as it does so it becomes narrower (min. Wth 1.1m). The base of the side-walls of the passage incorporate natural limestone bedrock, while the upper part is constructed of uncoursed drystone-walling. It is roofed with large limestone slabs. On the ground surface, to the E of the N end of the passage, a smaller circular depression in which drystone-walling is visible may be the remains of a second chamber. To the S of the passage, an area covered with undulating grassed-covered rubble and limestone uprights may be part of a further collapsed section, which would give it an overall length of 11.1m.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 16 August 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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