Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carrowroe North (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowroe North (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26229, -8.63340
- SMR number
- GA097-076----
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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 the summit of a flat-topped hillock in undulating pastureland. Described by Cody (1989, 309, no. 132) as a blocked-up roughly L-shaped souterrain (L 24m). The long axis (L 14m; Wth 1.3m) ran WSW-ENE and consisted of a grass-covered passage; one roof lintel was visible in situ at its ENE end. Immediately to the E
another lintel lay displaced among loose stones. The short axis (L 12m), which was indicated by a slight depression, extended from the ENE end and ran in a NE direction to a low grass-covered mound of stones. No visible surface trace survives as it is now obscured by a mound of field-clearance rubble.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.