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Souterrain

Gardenfield, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Gardenfield, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gardenfield
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Souterrain
Coordinates
53.54139, -8.87205
SMR number
GA029-080002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Within the now destroyed N half of a conjoined ringfort (GA029-080----). A plan of this souterrain drawn up by Costello (1902b. 111) indicates that it consisted of two chambers connected by a creep and was roughly L-shaped in plan. Costello (1903, 4) noted that it was much-ruined, 'only one of the large roofing flags is left in the first chamber, but about half of the second chamber is still roofed'. No trace of Costello's 'first' chamber survives and only half of the 'second'. This chamber initially runs WSW-ENE and consists of a hollow (L 7.8m) with traces of drystone-walling along NW wall. At WSW end, it curves gently and continues on an E-W axis. Here the chamber (L 6.5m, Wth 1.9m) survives intact.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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