Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloonagh (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonagh (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60847, -8.80236
- SMR number
- GA017-071002-
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
Associated with a large enclosure (GA017-071----). According to Neary (1914, 113-14, no. 139), a 'souterrain led into the rath from the N. side'. No visible surface trace survives.
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
References
Neary, J. 1914 On the history and antiquities of the parish of Dunmore in the baronies of Dunmore and Ballymoe, Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 94-128.
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.