Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Castlegrove West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegrove West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.57132, -8.94891
- SMR number
- GA016-029----
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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 the summit of a gentle rise in former demesne land. Named as 'Souterrain' on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932). Described by Costello (1903, 6) as 'a small souterrain of at least 14ft [4.25m] in length ... so filled at present as to be impossible to examine'. All that is now visible is an irregular grassy L-shaped hollow (L 13.5m), up to 3m in width. A collapsed roof lintel is visible at NE end of the shorter arm (L 5.5m) which runs NE-SW. At its SW end, the hollow turns sharply to W, on an E-W axis (L 8m). According to Costello (ibid.), 'it is believed ... that there is a communication between this cave and the castle of Castlegrove' (GA016-021----) which lies 450m to SE.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.