Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Coollicknalea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coollicknalea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62845, -8.90098
- SMR number
- GA004-022001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA004-022----). A poorly preserved drystone-built souterrain, T-shaped in plan. The 1st chamber (L 12.8m max.), running NW-SE, is mainly defined by a hollow, apart from NW end (L 2.8m) which survives intact. The 2nd chamber (L 17m, Wth 3.5m) extends from the junction of this chamber and hollow, and runs NE-SW. It is defined by a linear hollow and traces of drystone walling at NE end of S side.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.