Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Banagher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.60722, -8.90333
- SMR number
- GA016-006001-
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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 NW quadrant of a ringfort (GA016-006----). A plan of this souterrain drawn up by Costello (1902b, 110) suggests that it was roughly L-shaped in plan and consisted of at least two chambers. Access is now possible to only one. A stone-lined hollow (L 2m) leads to the chamber (L 3.9m, Wth 1.2m) which runs SE-NW. A possible creep is visible at NW end. A 2nd possible chamber is visible beyond this through a gap in the roof lintels; it appears to turn to SW. Another souterrain (GA016-006002-) lies c. 24m to NW. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448).
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.