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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22466, -8.73892
- SMR number
- SL019-064002-
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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 (SL019-065001-). Three openings in the cashel wall reveal a souterrain built beneath or against the cashel wall. The walls of the passage/chambers are drystone-built while the roofs are constructed of flat slabs. At W a collapsed opening gives access to a small chamber (max. dim. 2m) with a small lintelled opening at its S end. At NE a small opening reveals a passage (Wth 0.7m; H 0.5m). A short distance S of this is an opening to a small chamber (H 0.8m). An earlier report (ITA 1942-4) suggested that the souterrain may extend into the centre of the cashel.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.