Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Stradbally South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stradbally South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21732, -8.88688
- SMR number
- GA103-181001-
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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
Within the site of a possible cashel (GA103-181----). Described by Redington (1912b, 175) as 'a much ruined souterrain (here called an “uan”) of the usual type. It is 13ft [3.9m] long and 4ft [1.2m] wide …. Beyond W. end the chamber contracts to the width of a passage, 2ft [0.6m] wide by 6ft 1.8m] long'. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 July 2019
References
Redington, M. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin; ii Stradbally parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 171-183.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Mineunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.