Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Leana, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leana
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98577, -9.09414
- SMR number
- CL017-013002-
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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
Situated just E of centre in a cashel (CL017-013----). This souterrain (traceable L 3.8m; Wth 1.3m; max. exposed D 1m) is orientated WNW-ESE and comprises an underground passage with drystone sidewalls in which the lower of the four visible courses is of larger stones (L c. 0.7m; H 0.3m). At the top of each wall is a course of inwardly projecting corbel stones upon which four, large roof lintel stones rest. The floor is covered by clay. The passage may have extended further to the ESE (est. L c. 1.6m). Exposed stone extending to the NE (L c. 3m) from the passage’s WNW end may be natural outcropping rock.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 18 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.