Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballybaun (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caves
- Coordinates
- 53.17453, -8.77830
- SMR number
- GA104-014003-
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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 SW quadrant of a cashel (GA104-014----). This drystone-built souterrain (L >9.6m) runs NNE-SSW and consists of a chamber (L 7m; Wth 1.8m; H 0.92m) with a hollow (L 2.6m) defined by drystone walling at its N end. Some 4m further to the N, a linear depression (L 6m), running NE-SW, may be a continuation of this chamber or it may indicate the presence of a second one. (McCaffrey 1952, 210, no. 135)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.