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Souterrain

Graigue (Moycarky Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Graigue (Moycarky Par.), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Graigue (Moycarky Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62684, -7.80450
SMR number
TN047-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the edge of a tilled field on a NE-facing slope in the path of a former trackway which lead to a house (now abandoned). A large limestone slab (dims. 2m x 1m; T 0.4m) lies prostrate in this fallow area with other smaller limestone boulders scattered in the vicinity. There is no other trace of the site, the entrance to which, according to a local source, was blocked up some years ago. The souterrain (H 1.5-1.8m; Wth 8.7-10.2m) was investigated in 1932 and is described as being aligned N-S (L 7.2m), curving E at the N end (L 2.5m) with the S and W wall formed of natural limestone quarrying while the other walls are constructed from a combination of quarried wall-face and drystone-walling (OPW Files, 26th June 1932).

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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