Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lissananny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissananny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59540, -8.94895
- SMR number
- GA016-115001-
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 SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA016-115----). What is visible is a large regular grassy rectangular flat-bottomed hollow (L 20m, Wth 10.3m), running NW-SE, situated immediately inside the scarp defining the monument. It is up to 1.45m in depth. At its NW end, an entrance-like gap opens through the face of the scarp. A considerable amount of stone is visible in the sides of the depression but no structural remains. Possibly a souterrain or a quarry pit.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.