Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cave (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cave (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.48243, -8.99386
- SMR number
- GA042-092001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a ringfort (GA042-092----). A partially collapsed souterrain, L-shaped in plan. Most of the longer arm (L 11.2m, Wth 1.33m) has collapsed and is now defined by a linear hollow running N-S. About midway along this section, two lintels survive in situ just at a point where the passage narrows, suggesting the presence of a creep. The shorter arm extends off S end and runs E-W. It consists of a drystone-built rectangular chamber (L 3m). Access is gained through a modern gap at E end. (Costello 1903, 9)
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.