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Souterrain

Cloghalahard, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Cloghalahard, 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
Cloghalahard
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.24087, -8.86299
SMR number
GA095-015001-

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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

Immediately to the E of a possible cashel (GA095-015----). This drystone-built chamber (L c. 7m; Wth 1.7) runs E-W. Access is gained via a flight of concrete steps at its W end. A small alcove (L 1.5m, Wth 0.7m) extends off the W end of its S side-wall but there is no evidence to suggest that it is a creep. A well has been sunk into the floor of chamber a short distance to the E of the point of access. (Redington 1912b, 174)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 23 July 2019

References

Redington, M. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin; ii Stradbally parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 171-183.

Nearby in the register

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

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