Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilnalappa, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnalappa
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.65342, -8.71445
- SMR number
- GA005-071001-
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
In NW quadrant of a ringfort (GA005-071----). An L-shaped hollow, long axis (L 6m) running E-W, short axis (L 4m), extending from SE end and running N-S. Two displaced boulders lie at W end and 9m to S, a large limestone upright is locally believed to mark the entrance to the souterrain. (Neary 1914, 118, no. 36)
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
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.