Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knockereen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockereen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43465, -9.02074
- SMR number
- GA056-103001-
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
On a slight SE-facing slope. Poorly preserved roughly circular ringfort (D 39m) defined by an inner bank with traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank from N to E. Within the interior are two circular stone-lined depressions (D c. 1.4m); possibly collapsed animal pens. A pathway cuts the monument at NE andSW. An enclosure (GA056-105----) lies c. 150m to
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.