Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Aghlisk, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghlisk
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.54282, -8.82215
- SMR number
- GA029-001001-
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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 N Half of a ringfort (GA029-001----). Well-preserved drystone-built souterrain consisting of three chambers connected by two creeps; known locally as 'Gurranes cave' (Costello 1903, 1). Present access via a displaced roof lintel into a short passage (L 2.1m) at SE end of 1st chamber (L 6.5) which runs NW-SE. A creep at NW end leads to 2nd chamber (L 11.5m) running NE-SW. Another creep at SW end of this chamber leads to 3rd chamber (L. 6.3m) running NNE-SSW. Costello (ibid., 2) noted the existence of two air vents at S end of 3rd chamber, only one of which survives. (Costello 1902b, 112-13; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 447)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.