Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lisket, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisket
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99502, -9.17919
- SMR number
- CL009-203002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 NE interior of a cashel (CL009-203002-). An L-shaped souterrain (L c. 10.5m) incorporating an unroofed straight E-W section (L 4.5m; Wth 0.9m; D 0.5m) at the E end of which the passage turns N for at least 5m, roofed with stone lintels. There is an opening (Wth 0.45m; H 0.3m; roof lintel Wth 1m; T 0.25m) at the S end of the roofed section.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-203002-_01.jpg View from S
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.