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Souterrain

Meggagh West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Meggagh West, 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
Meggagh West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03350, -9.10447
SMR number
CL010-048002-

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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

On a W-facing slope in a narrow strip of rocky rough grazing in improved pasture. This souterrain (L 6m E-W) has modern openings at either end, but both were too confined to allow access when inspected in 1999. The W opening comprises a subrectangular hollow (1.1m E-W; 1m N-S; D 0.3-0.6m) with a shallow (D 0.25m) N-S orientated curving scarp just to its W. The hollow at the opposite, E end is smaller but much of the souterrain interior (upper int. Wth 1m; lower int. Wth 2m) with corbelled sidewalls was visible from there. Although totally grass-covered, roof lintels were visible at the E and W ends. There is a hut site (CL010-048003-) c. 57m to the E and a cashel (CL010-048001-) c. 68m to the NE.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 5 March 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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