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Souterrain

An Carn Mór Thiar, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, An Carn Mór Thiar, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
An Carn Mór Thiar
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.31396, -8.89663
SMR number
GA083-016----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Souterrain on a rise in pastureland. This drystone-built L-shaped souterrain (L over 21m) consists of three chambers connected by two drop-hole creeps. It was discovered in 1982 during building operations and was subsequently surveyed (Buckley and O'Brien 1985-6, 139-42). The first chamber (L 6.5m; Wth 1.6m; H 1.5m) ran SSE-NNW. Access was gained at NNW end at a point where roof lintels had collapsed. The drop-hole creep (L 2m; Wth 0.7m; H 1m max.) extended off NNE side and lead to the second chamber (L 6.5m; Wth 1.4m. H 1.8m) which ran ENE-WSW. Another drop-hole creep (L 2.1m; Wth 0.9m; H 0.75m) at its ENE end lead to the third chamber (L 4m; Wth 1.8m; H 1.65m), which was similarly aligned. No visible surface trace survives.

Compiled by: Paul Gosling and Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 27 January 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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