Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Sheebeg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheebeg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Subterraneous Passage
- Latest-edition OS map
- Subterraneous Passage
- Coordinates
- 54.01627, -7.96642
- SMR number
- LE028-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of the main Sheebeg Hill. A feature is described as a ‘Subterraneous Passage’ on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Local folklore as recorded in the Schools’ Manuscripts relates how after a fight with another giant in the area between Sheemore and Sheebeg Fionn Mac Cumhaill retired to a cave where he still rests. See this web-page accessed on 06/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4649691/4647714 There is no cave in evidence now. Instead there is a cleft in rock outcrop with a natural spring.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 April, 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.