Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloonascragh (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonascragh (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50686, -8.65741
- SMR number
- GA045-012001-
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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
On a hummock in gently undulating pasture and bogland. Known locally as a 'lios', it consists of a very poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 18m) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m max.). A field wall cuts the monument at N and S. A limekiln has been built into the scarp at E. According to local tradition, there is a 'cave' (possible souterrain) in NW quadrant of the interior but no visible surface trace of it survives. An early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA045-011001-) lies c. 100m to SW.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.