Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lissard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.34769, -8.38947
- SMR number
- GA073-126001-
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 W half of a ringfort (GA073-126----). A well-preserved drystone-built souterrain, roughly L-shaped in plan, consisting of two chambers linked by a creep. Access via opening a E end of 1st chamber (L 9m) which runs E-W. A creep at its NW end leads to 2nd chamber (L 4.4m) running NE-SW.
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
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 621.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.