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Souterrain

Leana, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Leana, 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
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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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 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

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

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