Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rannatruffaun East, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rannatruffaun East
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10421, -8.28054
- SMR number
- SL035-018004-
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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 SW quadrant of a cashel (SL035-018001-). A trench (L 10.6m; Wth 1.4m; long axis N-S) was noted to W of a hut site (SL035-018002-) extending from the cashel wall into the interior, possibly indicating a collapsed souterrain chamber.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.