Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyshanny, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshanny
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99723, -9.20348
- SMR number
- CL009-097002-
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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 (CL009-097----), this inaccessible souterrain (traceable L 12m; av. Wth 2.5m) is orientated NW-SE. A partially displaced roof lintel (L 1.7m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.2m) lies toward the SE end, with an area of loose stones to its SE, through which the drystone side-walling is visible. To the NW of the lintel, the line of the souterrain is traceable as a low bank (H 0.1-0.3m). An ESB pole has been erected c. 4m to the SE of the souterrain.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.