Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Wells, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wells
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.69581, -6.99438
- SMR number
- CW015-025----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Local report of an underground tunnel with lintels discovered while carrying out construction work at a farm building attached to Wells Cottage sometime in the 1920's or 1930's.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.