Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Tobertelly, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobertelly
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 54.07682, -8.71408
- SMR number
- SL032-163002-
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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 the NW quadrant of a rath (SL032-163001-). According to local information, an opening to a drystone-built passage was blocked some time ago. The surface evidence for the souterrain now consists of a low sod-covered rise (Wth c. 2m) which extends from the bank of the rath at WNW for 10m south-eastwards into the interior. At the ESE end it expands into an irregular sod-covered stony rise. The SSE side of the rise is formed by a concentration of large stones in a roughly horseshoe-shaped setting.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.