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Souterrain

Knockaunbrack, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Knockaunbrack, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockaunbrack
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.64253, -8.67153
SMR number
GA005-085001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On S-facing slopes of Checker Hill. Known locally as 'Moore's Fort (Neary 1914, 120, no. 6), this poorly preserved overgrown circular ringfort (D 27m) is defined by a drystone wall, intervening fosse and a stone-lined outer bank of earth. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at E. According to local tradition, there was a 'cave' (possible souterrain) within the interior. A large pit (L/Wth 7m) at S is said to mark its site. However, this afppears more likely to be a gravel pit. Two ringforts (GA005-086----, GA005-087----) lie c. 230m to W and c. 180m to SW 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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