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Souterrain

Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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

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

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