Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lisnamoltaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnamoltaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30517, -8.45623
- SMR number
- GA086-192001-
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 SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA086-192----). What is visible is a nettle-filled linear depression (L 6.6m, Wth 0.95m), up to 0.75m in depth, running ENE-WSW. Traces of stonework are visible intermittently along its sides and a large capstone-like slab delimits its ENE end. Just S of the latter, another slab is visible in a clump of overgrowth. The WSW end of the depression runs through a gap in the rath's bank. Some 4.3m W of it, outside the rath, is another large slab surrounded by a number of small stones.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.