Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rausker, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rausker
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14129, -6.84586
- SMR number
- MO019-024001-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the summit of and towards the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. Inside the perimeter of rath (MO019-023----) at NW a N-S depression (L 8m; Wth 3.4m; D 0.8m) with an E-W depression (dims 8.9m E-W; 3m N-S; D 0.6m) across its S end could represent a collapsed souterrain although no stone is present.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.