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Souterrain

Creevagh (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Creevagh, 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
Creevagh (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.00120, -9.09296
SMR number
CL010-200002-

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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

Situated in the S sector of a cashel (CL010-200001-), this partly collapsed souterrain (min. 4.9m NNE-SSW) comprises a roofless N section (L 2.4m; int. W 1.7m; D 0.8m) where the side-walls are visible, and an inaccessible S section (L 2.5m; D 0.2-0.9m) which is covered by five lintels. The middle lintel is broken and has fallen into the souterrain. The top of a large slab (L 1.1m; H 0.2m; T 0.05-0.2m) which forms the W side-wall at SSW end is visible. The area to the SW and NW of the souterrain is slightly built up with earth.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL010-200002-_01.jpg View of souterrain from NNW
CL010-200002-_02.jpg View from SSW

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 June 2023

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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