Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43146, -8.65679
- SMR number
- SL001-001085-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the E half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL011-011001-), known as ‘The Cashel’.
Heraughty (1982) and McGowan (1998) describe a souterrain beneath or east of Templemolaise church (SL001-001009-), but neither author gives personal testimony on this, and there is nothing now visible above ground. Indeed, the presence of a leacht (SL001-001021-) and several headstones in this area suggest that there is unlikely to have been a souterrain here, unless this was built at an unusual depth below the surface.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 16 January 2018
References
Heraughty P. 1982 Inishmurray. Ancient monastic island. Dublin. (revised ed.)
McGowan, J. 1998 Inishmurray,Gale, Stone and fire. Portrait of a fabled island. Mullaghmore.
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.