Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 54.27711, -8.38411
- SMR number
- SL015-052002-
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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 within a slightly raised area on the WSW side of Magheraghanrush cashel (SL015-052001-). The souterrain consists of a passage (L 5.3m; Wth 1.1m; H 1.3m) orientated NNE-WSW. The lintels are absent. The walls are of un-coursed rough rubble limestone and the floor of rock and earth slopes gently downwards from NNE-WSW. The entrance appears to have been at the NNE end where the passage turns at a right angle, extending 2m to the E, before vanishing as the floor rises. At the SSW end of the passage is a roughly rectangular drystone walled chamber (dims. L 2m N-S; Wth 1.65m E-W; H 1.35m) offset to the W of the passage. A single rectangular limestone slab lintel survives over the W end wall of the chamber.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.