Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Drumagh (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.