Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherbulligin,killeeneen More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherbulligin,killeeneen More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.24309, -8.80395
- SMR number
- GA096-025001-
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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 cashel (GA096-025----). Redington (1916a, 53) refers to 'two filled-in souterrains' in the cashel, while and McCaffrey (1952, 160, no. 50) states 'a souterrain is present in the interior. On inspection the site was so densely overgrown with thorn and scrub it was completely inaccessible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 January 2018
References
Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.