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Souterrain

Rinn (Killeely ED), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Rinn, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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