Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01211, -9.13888
- SMR number
- CL009-106003-
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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 half of the interior of a cashel (CL009-106001-), this souterrain (visible L c. 6.4m) is oriented N-S. A modern access point, around which a drystone structure is built, has exposed its middle section. To the N of this, the intact souterrain passage (L 3.4m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.75m) is covered by lintels, with limited corbelling of the walls. Wallace (1933, 248) described the walls as three or four courses high and noted that the N end of the passage was terminated by a large flat slab. To the S of the access point, the covered passage is mostly blocked by two intentionally placed stones but it can be traced beyond these (L 1.4m) further to the S. It then turns SE and is blocked by stone collapse. Above ground it can be traced further to the SE (L 2m; est. Wth 0.9m) until it is obscured by dense vegetation and rubble.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 10 June 2022
References
Wallace, Mr. 1933 Doorway in stone fort at Carran, Co. Clare. Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 3, 247-8.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.