Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballylin East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.20719, -8.70256
- SMR number
- GA104-029002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 N sector of a levelled rath (GA104-029001-). Only the blocked-up entrance to the souterrain is visible. It appears to run E-W. (McCaffrey 1952, 212, no. 43)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.