Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Garrauns (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrauns (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54130, -8.72341
- SMR number
- GA030-062001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
On a rise in undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 37.5m), in fair condition, defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The latter is overlain by a field wall from SW through W to NE. Either of two gaps at SE and SSE could be original. Within SE quadrant of the interior, a linear flat-bottomed hollow (L 7.9m, Wth 2.3m), running NNW-SSE, is visible: a possible souterrain.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.