Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cahernamuck West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernamuck West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23093, -8.58916
- SMR number
- GA097-049001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the N sector of a cashel (GA097-049----). This souterrain (L >13.5m) has collapsed and consists of two rectangular stone-filled depressions. That to E runs NNE-SSW (L 4m; Wth 1.8m). The other lies some 7m to WNW of its SW end. It runs NNW-SSE (L 2.5m). A number of displaced roof-lintels are visible in both depressions. The souterrain appears to have been L-shaped in plan though no visible surface trace of it survives between the junction of the two depressions.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.