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Souterrain

Killiaghan And Gort, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Killiaghan And Gort, 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
Killiaghan And Gort
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.53112, -8.05513
SMR number
RO045-102----

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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

Towards the bottom of a slight E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Discovered in 1986 during the improvement of the N 61 Athlone-Roscommon road when the outer chamber was unroofed. It consisted of a corbelled subrectangular chamber (dims c. 3.5m NE-SW; 1.6m NW-SE; H c. 1.6m) with a blocked creep at the S end of the NW wall and an air vent in the SW wall. At the N end of the SE wall a creep (Wth 0.35-0.8m; H 0.6-0.9m; L 1.45m) led to the S end of the NW wall of a second corbelled subrectangular chamber (dims 3.9m NE-SW; 1.6m E-W; H 1.9m) which has an air vent in the S wall and a blocked creep at the N end of the NW wall. This led to a collapsed third chamber. The souterrain was filled with stones and survives under the road, but is inaccessible.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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