Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Drumboat, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumboat
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03310, -6.57945
- SMR number
- MO029-008002-
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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
Situated on a low rise in a low-lying undulating landscape. There is local knowledge of an underground chamber or souterrain, the opening to which was in the SW part of the interior of rath (MO029-008001-). It is reported that animal bones and charcoal littered the floor of a drystone-walled and lintelled passage that extended off to the SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 28 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.