Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballaghdorragha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghdorragha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.65381, -8.69801
- SMR number
- GA005-005----
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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
On W-facing slope of a ridge in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as an isolated souterrain; it appears to have been known locally as 'Sálín Crú (Sawleen Crew)' (Topgr. Files, NMI). According to Neary (1914, 119, no. 21). 'The entrance chamber is lined with loose-stone masonry, and is roofed with heavy flags. It is at present 5 ft. [1.5m] wide, 9 ft. [2.75m] long, and 5 ft. high. It was very much deeper. The passage led E. at a depth … of five feet, but it has been clogged with sand by burrowing rabbits'. No visible surface traces survive. Two ringforts (GA005-075---- and GA005-006----) lie 275m to E and 375m to SE respectively.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.