Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Claddagh West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claddagh West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54673, -8.71335
- SMR number
- GA030-040002-
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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 N half of a ringfort (GA030-040----). What is visible is a grassy linear hollow (L 13.3m) running N-S. It averages 3.2m in width and is up to 0.75m in depth but widens at N end to 4.9m, possibly marking the site of a chamber. A few large stones protrude from its base and there is a pile of soil beside the hollow at its N end. According to local tradition, this is the site of a 'cave' which runs underground to Claddagh Castle (GA030-042----) which lies 550m to SE.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.