Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherapheepa, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherapheepa
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA103-055001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Somewhere to the NW of a cashel (GA103-055----). Redington (1916a, 52) recorded that outside the cashel ‘on the N.W. side, and at a much lower level, is an aperture in what was evidently the roof of a souterrain’. She suggested that this ‘may have been a method of egress from the fort’ and further notes that because it was filled with stones it was difficult to explore. Not located by the Survey. (McCaffrey 1952, 184-5, no. 91)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.