Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Derryglassaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryglassaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42022, -8.61180
- SMR number
- GA059-028001-
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
Associated with a ringfort (GA059-028----). Claffey (1983, 151) notes that the oval hollow (NW-SE 6m) in N half 'may be a collapsed souterrain'. According to local tradition, there is a 'cave' within this ringfort, the entrance to which was in another 'hollow' outside the 'fort' to N: not located. A local man remembered his father going into it.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.