Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballynamanagh West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamanagh West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22007, -8.92921
- SMR number
- GA103-041001-
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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 SW quadrant of a rath (GA103-041----). This drystone-built souterrain (L 21.8m) is very ruined and has partially collapsed but four distinct sections of its roughly stepped ground plan are identifiable. The section (L 6.3m; Wth 3m) nearest to the enclosing bank runs SSW-NNE and is inaccessible. At its NNE end the passage (L 4m) turns and runs NW-SE. It turns again at NW and runs NE-SW (L 7m). The NE end culminates in a pile of stones (L 4.5m) running E-W. An exposed lintel is visible among this material. (McCaffrey 1952, 182, no. 6)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.