Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Moheramoylan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moheramoylan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03773, -9.11141
- SMR number
- CL009-053020-
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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
Situated in the N half of the interior of a cashel (CL009-053010-), this Z-shaped souterrain (L 11m) is now largely exposed. The W end (L 3m; Wth 1.1m; H 0.5m) is roofed with three lintels and it appears that the entrance was at this end, which is heavily overgrown with rubble strewn around it. The passage continues a short distance (L 0.4m) to the E of the linetelled section, where the N side-wall survives in poor condition. It then turns N (L 3m). Both side-walls survive in this section but it is overgrown and filled with rubble; the N end of the W wall is particularly dilapidated. The passage then turns E (L 5m; Wth 1m; max. H 1m). Here too it is filled with rubble and there is rubble (Wth 2m) all around it. (Westropp 1898, 365)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 January 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1898 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare (Carran and Kilcorney). The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 352-66.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.