Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballynamona (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55942, -8.75169
- SMR number
- GA030-007001-
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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 (GA030-007----). This L-shaped souterrain was exposed as a result of gravel quarrying. Only the very base, now rubble-filled, survives as well as intermittent traces of the side-walls. It consisted of two chambers, both of similar size (L c. 5m, With 1.45m), one running E-W, the 2nd extending off its SE end and running N-S, Some side-walling visible off N side of 1st chamber and off SW end of 2nd, suggests there may have been further chambers.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.