Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killarriv, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarriv
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27559, -8.62020
- SMR number
- GA097-108001-
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
Within the N sector of the interior of a rath (GA097-108001-). Two hollows, both aligned on the same E-W axis, may mark the site of a souterrain though no stonework is visible. The larger hollow to the W is 15m long, 4m wide and 1.5m deep, while that to the E is 6m long; 4m wide and 1m deep.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.