Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killuney, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killuney
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61100, -8.72158
- SMR number
- GA017-116001-
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 ringfort (GA017-116----). According to Neary (1914, 111, no. 81), 'a souterrain ran S.E. to the Sinking River under the old avenue'. Locally it is believed that there is a 'tunnel' within the ringfort but 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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.