Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03764, -9.15893
- SMR number
- CL009-021019-
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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 NW centre of a stone-walled enclosure (CL009-021018-). A N–S souterrain with its entrance (Wth 0.5m; open H 0.2m) at the N. The lintel is 0.15m thick. The souterrain was inaccessible during a field visit (2007) but was subsequently entered by Bowmer (2019, 70, 72, Pl. 12), who recorded the passage as at least 2m long with ‘natural weathered gryke walls’, and the floor covered by boulders, animal bones and modern waste.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
References
Bowmer, T. 2019 Rectilinear drystone cashel and enclosure settlements in the Burren, Co. Clare. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 28, 59–84.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.