Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lissarow (decies Within Drum By., Ballymacart Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissarow (decies Within Drum By., Ballymacart Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98288, -7.70178
- SMR number
- WA038-030----
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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
Situated on a gentle N-facing slope of a NW-SE spur, overlooking a NW-SE stream c. 200m to the NE in a deep valley. A drystone-built, corbelled and lintelled passage (L 5.7m; max. Wth 1.4m; max. H c. 1m), extending E from a blocked entrance, is connected through a clay-cut creep with a second drystone-built, corbelled passage (L 6m; Wth 1.5m; H c. 1.5m). The latter curves to the N and terminates in a rock- and earth-cut chamber (dims. 2.7m x 1.9m). It was discovered in 1959 and is now closed. (Rynne 1962)
Rynne, E. (1962) Souterrain at Lissarow, near Ardmore, Co. Waterford. JCHAAS, vol. 67, 28-32.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10th October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.