Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilcurrivard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcurrivard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.42958, -8.93429
- SMR number
- GA057-121001-
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
Associated with a ringfort (GA057-121----). On 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) a small open circle appears at N limits of the hachures defining the cashel. What is visible is an almost square hollow (L/Wth 3m) cut into the outer face of the collapsed wall of the cashel. According to local information, a horse was buried in the 'cave' which was then infilled.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.