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Souterrain

Drumagh (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Drumagh, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumagh (Gallen By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.00658, -8.94640
SMR number
MA050-007002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a cashel (MA050-007001-). There is a surface opening (2m N–S; 0.8m E–W; D 1m) into the souterrain on the W side of a slightly sunken area of stony ground in the N of the cashel interior, close to the enclosing wall. The opening gives onto the W end of a roughly oblong chamber (2.2m E–W; 1.3m N−S at W end) of drystone construction, roofed with stone slabs. The floor is covered with an accumulated layer of loose earth and debris; the height of the chamber above current floor level is 0.6m. The chamber is widest and rectangular in shape at the W end, but tapers to a narrow rounded end at E. A single flat slab lies on the floor at its E end. A lintel can be seen built into the chamber wall at E, just above current floor level; it may cover a creep leading E.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 12 June 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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