Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballinphuil, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinphuil
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.44848, -8.84737
- SMR number
- GA057-028001-
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 W half of a ringfort (GA057-028----). A plan of this souterrain drawn up by Costello (1902b, 114-15) indicates that it consists of four chambers linked by three creeps. Killanin and Duignan (1967, 449) refer to three chambers. Only two are now evident. Access to both is via a gap in the roof. The 1st chamber (L 11.65m, Wth c. 1.9m), which lies inside W limits of the bank of the ringfort, runs NNW-SSE and a creep is visible at NNW end. The 2nd chamber (L c. 10.4m) lies just NNW of the centre. It also runs NNW-SSE and a creep extends off N end of SSW wall. The SSE end, beyond the gap, is almost completely filled in. Access beyond both creeps was impossible.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.