Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherweelder, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherweelder
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19677, -8.82920
- SMR number
- GA103-210----
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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 a low-lying marshy area, close to a stream. According to local information, during the course of work by the Land Commission around 1984, a stone-lined passage, running E-W, was discovered when a roof lintel was dislodged by a bulldozer. It was subsequently blocked up and no visible surface trace survives. Fulachta fia lie c. 60m to the SE (GA103-081----) and c. 100m to the SSW (GA103-083----) respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.