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Souterrain

Straid (Straid ED), County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Straid, County Donegal, 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
Straid (Straid ED)
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.26519, -7.42973
SMR number
DG010-046----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located c. 18m W of an 18th century C of I church, and c. 10m W of the wall of Clonmany graveyard (DG010-011001-), believed to be the early ecclesiastical site of Culmaine (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 377). A large hole (approx. diam. 2m) in the front garden of a modern bungalow leads down into a small roughly oval shaped, drystone-built chamber (int. diam. 1.67m E-W; 2.74m N-S; approx. max. H 3m). The roof of this chamber was originally corbelled but is now largely collapsed and the rubble partly fills the interior of the chamber. A small square-shaped opening (Wth. 0.65m; H 0.5m; L 0.6m) at the base of the chamber wall at SSE is a creepway leading into a stone-lined passage (L 4.6m; max. Wth 1.4m; H 1.34m) with natural clay floor orientated on a SSE-NNW axis. The walls of the passage incline inwards slightly towards the top and support a roof of stone lintels. At the SSE end of the passage, there is another square-shaped creepway (Wth. 0.58m; H 0.55m; L 0.39m) leading into a second stone-lined passage (L 5.3m; max. Wth. 1.25m; H 1.15m) which is blocked at the SSE end with rubble from the collapsed roof.

Compiled by: Paddy O'Donovan

Date of upload: 28 August 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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