Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Noughaval (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Noughaval (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01919, -9.14918
- SMR number
- CL009-064002-
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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 centre of a cashel (CL009-064001-). This souterrain (10.6-11.6m NNE-SSW) is partly rock-cut. From NNE an unroofed section of passage (L 3m; Wth 1.15m; est. H c. 0.2m) extends SSW, followed by a roofed section (L 3.6m; Wth 1.15m; H 1.1m) which has four lintels. The WNW and lower ESE walls of the roofed section are rock-cut, with the bedrock bulging into the souterrain on either side. The upper ESE wall is built from stone slabs. The NNE and SSW ends of the roofed section were blocked by drystone walls (the NNE wall has been pushed down). Beyond the SSW drystone wall there is another unroofed section of souterrain passage (L 4m).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 4 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.