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Souterrain

Carrowbaun (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Carrowbaun, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowbaun (Loughrea By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cave
Latest-edition OS map
Souterrain
Coordinates
53.23362, -8.62921
SMR number
GA097-061003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated within the SW quadrant of a cashel (GA097-061----), this souterrain (L >30m) cuts through the enclosing cashel wall at SW and reappears immediately beyond it. It is irregular in plan and consists of two roughly L-shaped passages which are separated by an area of collapse. The N passage, which is situated within the cashel, runs N-S along its long axis (L 13.2m; Wth 1.1m). The short axis (L 5m) extends from its NW end and runs E-W. This passage is for the most part collapsed and filled with rubble but some roof lintels and sections of the side-walls remain intact. At the extreme SW end of the long axis a displaced side-stone suggests that the direction of the passage changed to a NE-SW direction beneath the cashel wall. It re-emerges outside the cashel wall where the intact S passage is evident. The short axis of this passage (L 3.2m) runs N-S and the longer E-W axis (L 8.5m; Wth 1.63m; H 0.98m) extends off its SW end. Present access is via a displaced lintel near S end of this section. There is also a possible souterrain (GA097-061003-) in the SE quadrant.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 23 January 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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