Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Sheegeeragh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheegeeragh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.75112, -8.22631
- SMR number
- RO028-136003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Marked only on the 1930 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a 'Souterrain'. It is located at the SE edge of rath (RO028-136001-). This is an undifferentiated corbelled and lintelled passage (L 3.25m; Wth 1.7m; max. H 1.7m) aligned ENE-WSW with a blocked entrance (Wth 0.6m; H 0.55m) to a creep at the E end. The present entrance is by an excavation from the SE end of souterrain (RO028-136002-), but the creep at the E end suggests that it has another, outer chamber/ passage. The W wall of the chamber has an air-vent (dims 0.4m x 0.25m; L 2m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 5 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.