Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortakeeran
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16397, -8.65322
- SMR number
- SL025-153----
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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 pasture, at a break of slope at the SW end of a low ridge. An opening caused by a collapsed lintel reveals a drystone-built chamber (min. L 2m; Wth c. 2m; H c. 1.35m) roofed with lintels. The chamber was inaccessible, the opening being covered by a large stone. A sketch plan of this souterrain drawn in 1984 (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney) shows a roughly rectangular chamber (2.6m N-S; 1.6m E-W), with rounded corners, connected via a narrow creepway (1.7m N-S) at it N end to a linear passage (min. L 5.4m E-W; Wth 0.6m; H c. 1.7m). A children's burial ground (SL025-027001-) is c. 100m to E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.