Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carrownahooan West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownahooan West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caves
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caves (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97539, -9.31958
- SMR number
- CL015-008002-
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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
In an area of scrub in damp pasture on the steeply sloping E bank of the Knocknaskeagh River. The 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map indicates ‘Caves’ within a hachured enclosure (CL015-008003-); the 1916 ed. OS 6-inch map again indicates ‘Caves’ but the associated enclosure is not depicted. A twin-chambered souterrain comprising a rectangular chamber (4.76m x 1.87m NW-SE; H 1.85m) with a circular chamber to its NE (diam. 2.75m) joined by an intervening creep (1.8m x 0.87m NE-SW; H 0.59m). The partially collapsed NW end of the rectangular chamber formed the original entrance facing the riverbank. The walls are partially rock-cut and are partially drystone-built. The roof of the rectangular chamber is composed of two large lintels. The circular chamber had a corbelled beehive-style roof. A breach in the N side wall of the circular chamber provides access. A densely overgrown depression (L 8m; Wth 4m; D 2m) immediately S of these chambers may be the remains of a third collapsed chamber. An enclosure (CL015-008001-) is located c. 20m to the W, on the W bank of the Knocknaskeagh River.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 13 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.