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Souterrain

Cloonaderavally, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Cloonaderavally, 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
Cloonaderavally
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.23104, -9.07081
SMR number
SL016-061001-

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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

Situated on the NE side of a low ridge in undulating pasture. Wood-Martin (1882, 113-4) recorded a 'subterranean chamber, with several smaller chambers off'. Two adjacent passages have been identified. Both are walled with drystone masonry and roofed with massive lintels. The first (visible L 5-6m; Wth 1.25m; H 0.8m) is aligned E-W and appears to terminate at a wall at its E end. At its W end, at surface level, an area of surface subsidence (L c. 6m N-S; Wth 2.4m) hints that a subsidary passage may extending N at right angles from the main passage. The second passage, which is located a short distance E of the first, is also aligned E-W. At its E end is an area of collapse (L 2m E-W) which opens into a small passage (L c. 3m E-W; Wth c. 1m) that terminates at a stone wall at its W end. There is no obvious link between the two passages but, given their proximity and alignment, it is probable that they are part of the same structure.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 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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