Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killosolan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killosolan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.45435, -8.41939
- SMR number
- GA046-059001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within a ringfort (GA046-059----). A well-preserved drystone-built souterrain, T-shaped in plan, consisting of two chambers connected by a creep. Access is gained via the partially collapsed S end of the 1st chamber (L 6.95m, Wth 1.83m) which runs N-S. The creep (L 3.2m, Wth 0.43m, H 0.67m), running E-W, is about midway along W wall of this chamber. It is on a higher level than the chamber floors and is approached, on both sides, by three steep steps. The 2nd chamber (L 5.9m, Wth 1.82), also running E-W, has a steep upwardly sloping passage (L 3m) at its W end which exits on the outer face of the bank of the rath. There is a small recess in S wall of this chamber, near W end.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.