Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermackirilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01866, -9.12092
- SMR number
- CL009-079002-
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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 within the N wall of a cashel (CL009-079----), near the NW corner. This inaccessible souterrain passage (visible L 3.6m; Wth 1.4m; max. D 0.8m) is oriented E-W and is covered by lintels. Its W end is overgrown by hazel trees. There is a possible collapsed circular chamber at the E end. Around this is built a later drystone wall (diam. 2m) which adjoins a house of indeterminate date (CL009-079003-) overlying the cashel wall.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.