Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballymore (craughwell Ed),ballywinna, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore (craughwell Ed),ballywinna
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.24090, -8.72833
- SMR number
- GA096-001001-
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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 a possible cashel (GA096-001001-). Described by Wheeler in 1970 as a ‘short length of [a] rock-cut
souterrain’. Only one ‘roofing stone’ survived and it was inaccessible (SMR file). No visible surface trace survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 148, no. 58)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.