Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherhenryhoe, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherhenryhoe
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23322, -8.61120
- SMR number
- GA097-038001-
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
In undulating grassland. Named 'Cave' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. A possible rath (GA097-038----) is associated and two other raths (GA097-037----) and GA097-039----) lie c. 65m to the WNW and c. 225m to the WSW respectively.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 6 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.