Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Treankeel, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treankeel
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88236, -8.98428
- SMR number
- MA071-173001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rath (MA071-073----). A local tradition that a ‘cave’ or underground passage links this rath to another rath (MA071-143----) located c. 500m to N suggests that there may be a souterrain here. There is no visible trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.