Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilcloony (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcloony (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.59438, -8.87807
- SMR number
- GA016-060001-
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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 a ringfort (GA016-060----). Represented in name only on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932). Apart from a circular hollow (D c. 3m), no visible trace survives. Costello (1903, 5) refers to it as 'a two-chambered cave of the usual'. According to local information, it was destroyed in the late 1970s.
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
- Gate lodgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.