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Souterrain

Leaffony, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Leaffony, County Sligo, 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
Leaffony
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.24342, -9.02977
SMR number
SL011-135----

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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)
  • 1841 · 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

In pasture, immediately to N of a fragment of E–W field fence, and 40m N of a possible rath (SL011-134----). The exposed remnants of the souterrain consist of an oval chamber (2.3m N–S; 1.7m E–W; H 1.1m) of drystone construction. The walls, of large irregular or rounded boulders, are roughly corbelled to support a roof of stone lintels, only one of which remains in situ. One displaced lintel is embedded in the floor of the chamber and others may have been removed. There is a possible ventilation shaft (Wth 0.25m; H 0.23m) in the wall at E. A break in the wall on the S side gives access to the chamber. According to the landowner, there is also a stone-built tunnel, now covered over, close to the chamber. Immediately to E is a quarry pit (8.5m N–S; 10.5m E–W; D 1.8m). There is another rath (SL011-085----) located c. 300m to E.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 22 April 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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