Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Meggagh West, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.