Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cronin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cronin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48050, -8.21304
- SMR number
- RO047-067----
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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
On a gentle S-facing slope c. 30m S of rath (RO047-010001-). An underground passage was discovered in 1934 (Irish Times 3-1-34; Connaught Tribune 6-1-34) which is described locally as a passage (L c. 4m) leading through a creep to a beehive chamber. It was closed c. 1980.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.