Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carrowbaun (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbaun (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23306, -8.63386
- SMR number
- GA097-062001-
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
A 'Cave' is marked in the N sector of the interior of a cashel on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Apart from a rubble-filled hollow (N-S; L 3m), no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.