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Souterrain

Carrowroe North (Athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Carrowroe North, 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
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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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

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

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

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