Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Tawnylough, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnylough
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78311, -9.03930
- SMR number
- MA091-012001-
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 (MA091-012----). According to local tradition, a ‘cave’ or souterrain in the rath interior was access through an opening in the bank on the N side of the rath. The opening was blocked up in the past and there is now no visible trace.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.