Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Mylespark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mylespark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43771, -8.88251
- SMR number
- GA057-135001-
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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 S-facing slope. Well-preserved almost circular ringfort (D c. 38m) defined by a bank. Traces of inner and outer stone revetments are visible intermittently from N to ESE. Narrow gaps at ENE and ESE appear modern. Immediately inside the bank at SW is a grassy rectangular hollow (L 11m, Wth 3m), running NE-SW and averaging 2m in depth. It is flanked by a mound of earth and a number of stones are discernible at its base: a possible souterrain.
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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.