Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cashel (drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (drumahaire By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21864, -8.22599
- SMR number
- LE015-096002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. A short roofless passage (L 2.4m; Wth c. 1.5m) oriented N-S with some side-stones visible at the W side leads, at its S end, to a subcircular depression (dims. 3.8m N-S; 2.6m E-W) in the SW quadrant of cashel (LE015-096001-).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.