Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Moneygashel, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneygashel
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25402, -7.90955
- SMR number
- CV004-016003-
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At Moneygashel cashel (CV004-016001-). Built into the external face of the wall at S is a blocked-up souterrain entrance. Richardson (1938, 20) recorded that 'the souterrain ran radially under the cashel, where its roof stones were discovered at one, time'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.