Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherweelder, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherweelder
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.18818, -8.82899
- SMR number
- GA103-088002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Associated with a cashel (GA103-088001-). Named 'Cave' on the 1838 and 'Cave (Site of)' on the 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. On the latter map it is shown at the E sector of the cashel. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.