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Souterrain

Moheramoylan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Moheramoylan, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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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 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

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

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