Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballymacool, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacool
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.94581, -7.76418
- SMR number
- DG053-030----
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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
A souterrain roughly aligned NNW-SSE. It consists of a passage 5.2m × 1.1m at its S end narrowing to .6m, 4m along and widening out to 1.4m at the N end where the wall is flat and bonded into the side walls. There is a small recess in the S wall .4m × 0.5m, In the E wall there is a small passage .28m above the ground level. It is .4m × 0.4m but the interior has collapsed. The average height of the souterrain is c. 1m. It is roofed with flagstones a gap in these at the S end gives entry. It is situated in an orchard in good land on a slope falling away to the River Swilly to the S.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.