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Souterrain

Ahenny Little, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Ahenny Little, 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
Ahenny Little
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.41432, -7.39410
SMR number
TS079-006----

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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

On the summit of a natural hill, in pasture. The monument was previously inspected in 1975. The entrance has since been blocked up and grassed over. The souterrain, orientated SSE-NNW, slopes slightly downward from N to S (Sweetman and DeBuitléir 1976, 73). It consists of two chambers built of orthostats with dry-stone walling which is corbelled inwards and roofed by large slabs (ibid.). The passage which joins the two chambers is cut through rock outcrop (ibid.). The NW chamber (H 1.7m; dims. 2m x 3.5m) has a small blocked passage (H 0.45m; Wth 0.5m) at its W end c. 1m above the present floor level (ibid.).The SE chamber (H 1.25m; dims.c.2m x 3.5m) has a passage leading S from it which consists of two pairs of jambs and lintels with unlined boulder clay between (ibid.). The passage leads to a wider gallery which is blocked by collapse (ibid.). No associated earthworks are visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Sweetman, P.D. and De Buitléir, M. 1976 Souterrain in the townland of Ahenny, Co. Tipperary. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 18, 73-4.

Nearby in the register

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

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