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Souterrain

Brenormore, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Brenormore, County Tipperary South, 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
Brenormore
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.43927, -7.53728
SMR number
TS071-023002-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Keatinge (1858-9, 12) refers to the souterrain as being on the E side of the ringfort and describes it as 'a passage or way within the rath, and on the inner side of this passage I found more than one half of a little building, of the rudest stones, but still showing great tact and ingenuity in the erection of a bell or beehive-shaped entrance to the rath. At the bottom, a passage, choked somewhat with debris, leads into the fort, and some of the people in the immediate neighbourhood have gone in a short way', he goes on to describe how a local man 'entered with lights, and on going in a few yards through the sewer-like passage, he found it so enlarge so as to be able to stand erect. This man said that he found rooms of some extent and several small ones on the sides of the passage'. Associated with ringfort (TS071-023001-). No visible surface trace. Not depicted or named on 1st (1840) ed. or 2nd (1904) ed. OS 6-inch maps.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 30 September 2014

References

Keatinge 1858-9 'Proceedings'. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 11-12.

Nearby in the register

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

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