Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyganner North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01185, -9.15996
- SMR number
- CL009-102002-
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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
Within the W half of a cashel (CL009-102001-). Beginning close to the cashel wall at W, this souterrain comprises a passage (L c. 7.5m; Wth 1.1-1.4m) — partly open and partly obscured by cracked and broken lintels — leading to a blackthorn-filled beehive chamber (min. diam. 2m) in the centre of the interior. The extant passage incorporates three distinct straight sections. The most westerly of these (L 1.5m) is oriented NNW-SSE. The passage then turns ESE (L 2m) and then NE (L 4m) where most cracked lintels are found, before passing under a large lintel and opening into the chamber.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.