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Souterrain

Cartron (Carrowrevagh ED ), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Cartron (Carrowrevagh ED ), 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
Cartron (Carrowrevagh ED )
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.54046, -8.76509
SMR number
GA030-034001-

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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

On a prominent rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved and partially overgrown subcircular rath (N-S 39m; GA030-034----) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field wall cuts across the monument at SSW and NNW, and no visible surface trace survives to W of it. A scarp forms the inner enclosing element from N to ENE but from this point to SSW it continues as a wide bank. There is a gap (Wth 4m) at S. The fosse and outer bank survive only from SSE to SSW. The interior rises towards the centre where there are traces of a low scarp and a large circular hollow (D 6m). Directly inside the inner bank from E to S is a large fosse-like linear depression up to 0.6m in depth. This depression or the central hollow may mark the site of a 'cave' (possible souterrain; GA030-034001-) which, according to local tradition, lies within the interior.

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: 9 February 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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