Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ardkeen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkeen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84746, -9.59305
- SMR number
- MA076-045----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 pasture, close to the shore on the S side of an inlet in Newport Bay. There is a rath (MA076-009) c. 150m to SSE. A blocked-up opening to a subterranean cavity, with a depth below ground surface of at least 1.1m. According to local information it is an artificial underground passage.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.