Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cahermaclanchy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermaclanchy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04113, -9.36440
- SMR number
- CL008-016008-
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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
Within the interior of a cashel (CL008-016004-). Westropp (1905, 355) recorded that an old herdsman told him that ‘there was a souterrain in the garth which ended in a deep pit, “down into water”’; the entrance was visible but was filled up with stones. In the SE quadrant of the cashel, where a section of the site had been quarried out, a number of large slabs and intermittent lengths of drystone-walling were visible. They may mark the site of a collapsed souterrain.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 August 2022
References
Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 2 - west Corcomroe. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 342-61.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.