Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Brackloon (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28541, -8.58333
- SMR number
- GA085-011002-
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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 NW quadrant of a rath (GA085-011----). An L-shaped depression (L >20m.5m; Wth 3m; D 0.5-1.2m) indicates the site of a possible souterrain. The long axis (L 11.5m) runs NNE-SSW and the shorter axis (L 9m) extends from its S end and runs NE-SW. No stonework is visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.