Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballygarraun North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarraun North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.29955, -8.77703
- SMR number
- GA084-009001-
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
Some 20m to the S of a large enclosure (GA084-009----). A drystone-built chamber (L >6m; Wth 1.9m) runs E-W. Present access at E is via a sloping hollow with traces of drystone walling on either side. There is a blocked air vent in the end wall. (Knox and Redington 1916, 189-90; Knox 1918b, 112-13, no. 11; Cody 1989, 306-8, no. 130)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.