Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knockdoebeg West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdoebeg West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38045, -8.90557
- SMR number
- GA070-104001-
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
Within the SE quadrant of a cashel (GA070-104----). According to the landowner, a roofstone of a souterrain collapsed while he was driving his tractor along the laneway that cuts through the monument. It exposed a large chamber (appox. H 2m; Wth 2m; L 5m), which was aligned N-S. Due to the danger posed to livestock resulting from the collapse, the gap was back filled with field-clearance boulders.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.