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
- 53.00907, -9.15385
- SMR number
- CL009-103002-
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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
Located in the SW quadrant of the interior of a cashel (CL009-103----), this souterrain (L 9m) comprises an L-shaped passage and chamber. From its northernmost traceable end, an unroofed section of the passage (L 2m; Wth 0.9m; D 0.7m) is aligned NW-SE. It then turns and is aligned NE-SW (L 5.2m; Wth 1.3m); two in situ roof lintels survive at the bend and a number of collapsed or slipping lintels are visible in the S section. This passage then widens into a chamber (L 1.8m; 1.55m; Wth 1.55m; max. H 1.2m). Its side and back walls are corbelled and it is roofed with two lintels. Bedrock is visible at the base of the long walls of the chamber. A possible trapezoidal structure (CL009-100003-) is visible to the W of the souterrain.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 27 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.