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Souterrain

Castletown (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Castletown, 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
Castletown (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cave
Latest-edition OS map
Cave
Coordinates
53.03166, -9.07860
SMR number
CL010-015003-

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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

Near the centre of a cashel (CL010-015002-) and built against a natural cave (CL010-015004-). Labelled ‘Cave’ on the 1840 and 1916 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The rock cut souterrain is slightly dog-legged in plan, aligned N-S (L 3.2m; Wth 1.2m) and then extending from the N end towards the NW (L 2.5m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.65m) to where it is blocked by a collapsed lintel, beyond which it meets a natural cave (CL010-015004-). The N-S section is poorly preserved, partially unroofed and filled with loose stone and displaced roof lintel stones while the NW section remains roofed by several lintel stones.

See attachments:
• CL010-015003-_01.jpg View of souterrain from S.
• CL010-015003-_01.jpg View of interior of NW passage from SE end.

Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 9 December 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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