Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Roughaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roughaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 52.97720, -9.11459
- SMR number
- CL016-052003-
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
In the SE quadrant of a cashel (CL016-052001-). Named ‘cave’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Described by O'Donovan in 1830 as open but inaccessible ‘on account of the narrowness of the passage’ (Comber 1997, 15). Described by Westropp (1900, 407) as 'closed'. The entrance (H 1m; Wth 0.6m) to the souterrain is visible inside the wall of the cashel c. 8m from the centre. It is blocked up with old timbers.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 11 May 2022
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Westropp, T.J. 1900 Excursions of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Summer meeting, 1900. Description of the places visited. Section III. Third excursion; Section IV. Fourth Excursion. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 392-419; 420-26.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cross - Tau crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.