Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Eskerballycahill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskerballycahill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43275, -8.40966
- SMR number
- GA060-075001-
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
In the interior of a ringfort (GA060-075----). An L-shaped souterrain indicated by a chamber and hollow. The chamber (L 8.3m, Wth c. 2m), running N-S, lies directly beneath a modern field bank which cuts through the ringfort. Although inaccessible, the interior may be glimpsed through gaps in the roof lintels. The shorter arm (L 7.6m, Wth c. 2m) extends off SE end and runs E-W. It is defined by a rubble and nettle-filled hollow
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.