Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballynacourty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22205, -8.94032
- SMR number
- GA103-023001-
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
Associated with a rath (GA103-023----). Holt (1912, 233) noted that a 'low mound W of centre of garth presumably marks a souterrain'. The rath has been levelled and no visible surface trace of it or the possible souterrain survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.