Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Castletown (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.