Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Iskancullin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iskancullin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02032, -9.14557
- SMR number
- CL009-069003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 centre of a cashel (CL009-069002-). This souterrain (L c. 4.8m WNW-ESE; max. Wth 1.05m; max. H 1.15m) has an entrance at WNW, where rubble fills the passage. From here the souterrain extends ESE, with walls ‘of dry masonry, and the top of thin slabs’ (Westropp 1901, 286), of which six roof lintels were in place upon inspection in 1997. The passage narrows toward the ESE, until blocked by rubble. It is traceable beyond this for a further 1m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6 April 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.