Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Gortaphuill (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaphuill (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47917, -8.18738
- SMR number
- RO047-084----
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
On a gentle ENE-facing slope. A lintel of a drystone-built but inaccessible passage (L 2m; Wth 0.75m; H 0.2m) is oriented NE-SW with a further length of exposed and collapsed passage (L 2.6m) at its NE end, which leads to a circular depression (diam. c. 7m). Rath (RO047-029----) is c. 100m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.