Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cahermakerrila, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermakerrila
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03881, -9.23458
- SMR number
- CL009-001038-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 NE sector of a hut site (CL009-001004-). Heavily overgrown with grass, its now-roofless passage (L 3m E–W; Wth 0.9m; D 0.4m) opens at E into a circular depression (1.7m N–S; 1.6m E–W; D 0.6m). Several large stones (L c. 0.7m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.4m) are visible within the souterrain. Westropp (1915, 52) described it as follows: ‘At the north-east part of [the hut site’s] garth is a well-built sunken and circular cell, of smaller stones, and 6 feet inside, with a door to the west, the jambs 2 feet thick; thence runs a curved passage 12 feet long and 3 to 4 feet wide, running under the outer wall at its north point. The souterrains was probably enclosed in a wooden or clay house with a stone fence or even basement.’
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 25 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.