Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Flaskagh More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flaskagh More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.67195, -8.66729
- SMR number
- GA005-052----
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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 level ground in otherwise hilly grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as an isolated souterrain. It is inaccessible but from a small gap in the roof, it appears to consist of an almost completely blocked-up drystone-built passage running on a NW-SE axis. According to Neary (1914, 120, no. 25), it 'marks the site or proximity of a ravelled fort', no visible surface trace of which survives.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 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.