Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballylin West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.19479, -8.72117
- SMR number
- GA104-040001-
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 centre of a rath (GA104-040----). This inaccessible drystone-built chamber (L >3m) runs N-S. The interior may be viewed from a very small gap at N end. (McCaffrey 1952, 214, no. 71)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 December 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.