Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Gorteen (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (Tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 54.12153, -9.18459
- SMR number
- MA030-079----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the NE corner of a modern pasture field, on the NW outskirts of Ballina town, located on top of a roughly N–S ridge, close to the fall of ground on the W side.
This souterrain is not shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, but is indicated as ‘Cave’ on the 1930 edition. At surface ground level, a shallow, linear depression (c. 5m NNE–SSW; c. 1.5-2m WNW–ESE) indicates the line of the underground passage. Partly exposed within the depression, are three in situ roofing lintels, which flank a cavity where a fourth lintel has been displaced. The cavity provides a partial view of the interior of a passage (Wth c. 1-1.2m; c. H 0.8m), which has walls of drystone construction.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.