Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherpeak East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherpeak East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.19722, -8.85625
- SMR number
- GA103-062001-
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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
Centrally placed within a cashel (GA103-062001-). A plan and description of this drystone-built souterrain by Knox and Redington (1916, 184-6) indicates that it consisted of two chambers connected by a drop-hole creep. The 1st chamber (L 7.3m; Wth 5.3m) ran N-S. Its S half was filled with stone. Near the N end of the W wall the drop-hole creep and a small passageway (L 3.1m; Wth 1.3m), running E-W, lead to the 2nd chamber (L 4.7m; Wth 1.7m), which also ran N-S. Access was gained to the 1st chamber via a displaced roof lintel. On inspection, apart from a flat area of stones to the W of centre, no visible surface trace of the souterrain survived.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2017
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.