Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Corbally South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbally South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39350, -8.88759
- SMR number
- GA070-053----
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
On a gentle S-facing slope in grassland. According to local information, this is the site of a two-chambered souterrain similar to GA070-045001- All that is now visible is a grassy oval depression (L 16m, Wth 14m), up to 1.5m in depth, its long axis running E-W.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.