Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Hazelfort, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hazelfort
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30242, -8.40001
- SMR number
- GA086-135004-
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
In NW quadrant of a ringfort (GA086-135001-). What is visible are two contiguous overgrown stony depressions, 1.5m apart, both roughly rectangular in plan. In E depression (N-S 3.4m, E-W 1.5m), which is up to 0.8m in depth, moss-covered stones protrude from N and E sides, while W depression (N-S 4.8m, E-W 3m), 0.3m in depth, is strewn with loose stone. Some 8m to W of the latter is another parallel nettle-filled depression (N-S 5.5m, Wth 3.5m). Possibly also associated.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.