Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Frenchbrook South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frenchbrook South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57058, -9.14676
- SMR number
- MA121-024007-
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 cashel (MA121-024001-). According to local tradition, there was a stone-built souterrain within the cashel but the entrance, which may have been in the N slope, was blocked up and concealed in the past.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.