Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lisgorey, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisgorey
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28789, -8.41933
- SMR number
- SL015-010002-
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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
Located in the inner bank of Lisduff rath (SL015-010001-) on the W side of the interior. The entrance to the souterrain is at the N base of a roughly rectangular flat-topped mound (dims. top N-S 2.3m; E-W 2.1m: base N-S 2.5m; E-W 4.3m; H 1.2m) of earth and stone. The entrance (Wth 0.8m; H 0.35m) is lintelled with a limestone slab but the passage is blocked with earth.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.