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Souterrain

Cahernabrock, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Cahernabrock, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cahernabrock
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52326, -9.13696
SMR number
MA123-018002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a cashel (MA123-018001-). In the NW quadrant of the cashel, just W of centre, three shallow surface depressions, largely infilled with field stones, may indicate a collapsed souterrain. A 1979 report records a short length of a lintelled stone drain or possibly a souterrain vent (Wth 0.5m; H 0.25m), which was exposed during clearance works close to the external slope of the cashel wall at SE; this was no longer visible during an inspection in 1999.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 September 2018

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1983).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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