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Souterrain

Lissagallan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Lissagallan, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lissagallan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.65891, -8.24271
SMR number
RO039-006003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

The entrance (Wth 1.3m; H 0.3m) to an inaccessible S-N passage is inside the perimeter of rath (RO039-006001-) at SW. From the present entrance a hollow (dims 8.3m NW-SE; 5.3m NE-SW; D 0.3-0.7m), probably a destroyed passage, runs off to the SE. The entrance to souterrain (RO039-006002-) is c. 14m to the N and it is unlikely that the two souterrains are connected and part of a single souterrain.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 14 September 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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