Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kiltiernan East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltiernan East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.17746, -8.83509
- SMR number
- GA103-142001-
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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
In the NW quadrant of a rath (GA103-142----). This inaccessible drystone-built souterrain consists of a passage (L >10m; Wth c. 1m; H 0.7m) running E-W. Some collapsed slabs indicate that it continued further to the E. There may have been a second chamber immediately to the N of the E end of the passage. (McCaffrey 1952, 199, no. 66)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2018
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.