Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Sessuecommon, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sessuecommon
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 54.08708, -8.81585
- SMR number
- SL031-034----
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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
On flat ground, on the S slopes of the Ox Mountains and adjacent to rock outcrop. An opening (Wth 2m) leads to a silted-up and water-filled chamber (long axis E-W) roofed with lintels.
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
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.