Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killour, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killour
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.58912, -9.27147
- SMR number
- MA117-041----
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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
Isolated, at the base of a low hill 150m E of enclosure (MA117-040----). Souterrain (L 8.2m E-W; H 1.4m) constructed of dry-stone walling and covered with six large lintels. Entrance erected above field level. E end meets with a low cave, either natural or artificial, extending E-W into bedrock for 9m and then N-S for 5m.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 519.
Date of upload: 7 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.