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Souterrain

Comraghs, County Monaghan, Ireland

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Townland
Comraghs
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.98956, -6.57570
SMR number
MO032-016001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 at the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A grass-covered depression (L 5.5m NNE-SSW; Wth 1.3-1.5m; max. D 0.7m) inside the bank of rath (MO032-016----) at NW and another hollow (L 4m) 2m to the SW are likely to represent two collapsed portions of a souterain.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 27 July 2017

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

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