Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Farranyharpy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranyharpy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 54.23156, -8.74754
- SMR number
- SL018-051003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a cashel (SL018-051002-). Marked as 'Cave' on the 1913 OS 6-inch map. An opening in the inner face of the ruined enclosing wall of the cashel at SW gives access to a souterrain with walls of drystone construction and lintel roofing. A sketch plan recorded in 1986 (SMR Files) shows that the access hole leads into a chamber which is connected at its E end by a low lintelled creepway to a second chamber. The second chamber has a small stone lined cupboard built into its E wall. Opening from the N wall of the second chamber is another creepway which is blocked but appears to extends to N. At ground level in the cashel interior, just to N of the souterrain access hole, a linear surface depression is evident extending from the cashel wall into the interior to ENE for c. 7m. This appears to indicated the line of the souterrain.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.