Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyganner North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00745, -9.16953
- SMR number
- CL009-059053-
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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 NE interior of a hut site (CL009-059052-). Indicated and named ‘Cave’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Marked as a souterrain on Robinson’s map (1977). This souterrain (visible L 2.1m; Wth 1m; max. H 1.1m) is built in a gryke extending N-S in the exposed karst limestone pavement, and is covered by a large square roof-lintel (L 1.5m; Wth 1.5m). The N limit of the exposed souterrain (c. 1m S of the hut site’s N wall) is blocked by two large stones set upright into the gryke. The souterrain may turn E at its S exposed end.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 15 February 2022
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.