Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cargin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cargin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43955, -9.15257
- SMR number
- GA055-027004-
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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
Indicated on the OS Fair Plan map within the NW quadrant of the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA055-027001-) associated with ‘Cargin Church’ (GA055-027002-) and named ‘Cave’ in Roman script. On inspection by the Galway Survey in July 1984 no visible surface trace of it was noted. According to local information, ‘a tunnel or souterrain’ led from the graveyard (GA055-027005-) to ‘Cargin Castle’ (GA055-028----) c. 490m to the SSW (Halpin et al. 2004, 7).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 18 September 2020
References
Halpin, S., Kretsch, C., Keely, B., Ó Monacháin, C. and Moore, D. 2004 Archaeological, ecological & structural survey of Cargin Church, county Galway on behalf of Cargin Cemetery Committee. Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services Ltd. Report available at: http://homepage.eircom.net/~cargincemetery/report.pdf last accessed 18 September 2020.
Nearby in the register
- Exhibitionist figureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.