Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Icehouse
Addergoole (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Addergoole (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ice Ho.
- Coordinates
- 53.55409, -9.89459
- SMR number
- GA023-001----
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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 bogland on the S side of Kylemore valley, circa 200m to the SE of ‘Kylemore Farm Yard’. Only the roofless shell of this rectangular icehouse (NE-SW c. 10m; NW-SE c. 5m), which appears to be half buried in the bog, survives. The NW wall is higher than the SE one indicating that the roof was steeply sloped. The doorway is in the NE wall. A line of beam slots running along the external face of the NW wall suggests a lean-to building was formerly built against it. When inspected the building was heavily overgrown with rhododendrons making access difficult.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.