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Souterrain

Doonnagore, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Souterrain, Doonnagore, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Doonnagore
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.00185, -9.39591
SMR number
CL008A004002-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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

Situated in the N interior of a cashel (CL008A004----), this collapsed and dug-out souterrain comprises a curving trench (est. L c. 5m NNW-SSE; max. D 1m) with remains of a drystone wall visible in the E side, and a single stone set near the N end which may be part of the N wall of a chamber. A shallower depression (L 2m) lies immediately S of the trench. Along the upper E edge of the trench is a low earthen mound (Wth 1.5m), which appears to be spoil from when the souterrain was dug out.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL008A004002-_01.jpg View from SE
CL008A004002-_02.jpg View from SW

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 9 January 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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