Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cahercrin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercrin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26054, -8.76366
- SMR number
- GA096-030001-
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
Redington (1916a, 56) and Westropp (1919, 181) refer to the presence of a souterrain within the interior of the cashel (GA096-030----). Due to the dense overgrowth, trees and bushes it was not located.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.