Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kiltiernan West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltiernan West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17469, -8.84229
- SMR number
- GA103-143----
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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
In reclaimed pastureland within the interior of a house (GA103-143001-). This drystone-built souterrain (L 4.8m, Wth 1.27-2.1m; H 0.66-1.33m), running SE-NW, widens towards the NW end. Access is gained at the SE end. A depression (L 2m) filled with collapsed stone indicates that it extended further to the SE. A blocked-up creep (L c. 1m; Wth 1.1m) is evident at the N end of the W wall. It runs ENE-WSW and may lead to a second chamber.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.