Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rinn (killeely Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinn (killeely Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21086, -8.83113
- SMR number
- GA103-049001-
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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 NW quadrant of a cashel (GA103-049----). This largely collapsed drystone-built souterrain consists of a chamber running NNW-SSE. Access is gained at its NNW end. A section of collapse (L 4m) to the NNW of the access point indicates that the chamber continued further in that direction. A plan drawn by Knox and Redington (1916, 182-4) suggests that the souterrain consists of three chambers connected by two drop-hole creeps. (McCaffrey 1952, 203, no. 88)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
References
Knox, H.T. and Redington, M. 1915-16 Some rath-caves in and near the barony of Dunkellin. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 178-90.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.