Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cappagh (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33783, -8.35281
- SMR number
- GA074-019001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within W half of a ringfort (GA074-019----). What is visible is a roughly pear-shaped hollow (L 8.8m, Wth 2.5m max.), up to 1m in depth, its long axis running NNE-SSW. Two opposing flagstones, 1m apart, protrude from the sod towards the shallower NNE end. Large stones are evident along the sides and bottom in this area, dividing the hollow into two unequal parts. The remains are open to interpretation as a robbed-out souterrain chamber and creep, but could also represent those of a poorly preserved limekiln.
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
- 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.