Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Garraun Upper, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun Upper
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23100, -8.94726
- SMR number
- GA095-047001-
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
Within the interior of a rath (GA095-047----). Holt (1912, 229) noted a hollow and suggested that it indicated a collapsed 'souterrain'. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2017
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.