Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Sleaty, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sleaty
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LA032-018006-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Reference to a possible unlocated souterrain between Clopook fort (LA019-021001-) and Sleaty (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 249-265). The precise location of this possible souterrain has not been identified. Described by Comerford as ' There lingers still in the locality a tradition that in ages past a saint used to retire to his distant church by a subterranean passage leading south, which is supposed to be still in existence' (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 253).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 19 March 2015
References
Comerford, Rev. M. 1883-6 Collections relating to the dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin, 3 vols. James Duffy and Sons. Dublin.