Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Shanbally (killeely Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanbally (killeely Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22880, -8.76469
- SMR number
- GA096-178----
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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
On a hillock in grassland. During land reclamation in 1970 a bulldozer exposed an 'underground cavern', part of the roof of which collapsed under its weight. During an ensuing inspection all that was visible was a collapsed hollow containing a possible roof lintel c. 0.3m below the ground surface (SMR file). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 March 2017
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.