Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloonaraher (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonaraher (leyny By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 54.10921, -8.70090
- SMR number
- SL032-044----
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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 a gentle slope, above a stream to E and NE. A broken-out entrance leads to an oval chamber (max. dims. 3m N-S; 2m E-W), built of slightly corbelled drystone-walling and roofed by large flat stone lintels. A silted-up creepway to a passage is visible at the NE side of the chamber. According to local information, 'ashes and burnt stones' were noted in the vicinity of the souterrain when the field was ploughed.
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.