Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Hawksford, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hawksford
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.93702, -8.63904
- SMR number
- RO008C010002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a cave, it is situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge and at the SW edge of rath (RO008C010001-). A NE-SW lintelled passage (L 4.8m; Wth 2.3m; H 1.4m) entered at the SW end is flooded (D 0.4m) and regarded locally as a holy well (RO008C010003-), but there is no evidence of veneration. Earthwork (RO008C009----) is c. 70m to the NW.
See the attached view from the entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.