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Souterrain

Ballyhomulta, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Ballyhomulta, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyhomulta
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01078, -9.18946
SMR number
CL009-100002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in the N sector of the interior of a rath (CL009-100002-), this souterrain (L 5m) is orientated N-S. Its S traceable extent is indicated by a roof lintel embedded in the ground surface. Another lintel (Wth 0.88m) is visible 2.8m to its N. It appears to be supported by corbels and from here a roofed section of the passage (L 2.2m) is visible, extending N to the backwall. This wall appears to have collapsed, at least in part, and beyond it, what appears to be an animal den is visible. A cavity in a poached area of the outer face of the inner bank of the rath may be the other end of the den (L 2.15m).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 27 May 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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