Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballynabucky (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynabucky (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.20099, -8.84091
- SMR number
- GA103-020001-
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 a rath (GA103-020----). This souterrain consists of a drystone-built subrectangular chamber (L 5.8m; Wth 1.3m; H 0.85-1.45m) running NNE-SSW. Access is gained at the SSW end and the chamber narrows towards the NNE end where it is 0.9m wide. (McCaffrey 1952, 179, no. 96)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.