Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyshea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18175, -8.71447
- SMR number
- GA104-058001-
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 SW quadrant of a cashel (GA104-058001-). This rubble-filled souterrain is Y-shaped in plan. The long axis (L 13.8m) runs NNE-SSW. The junction with the shorter axis (L 9.3m; Wth 1.6m) lies c. 2m from the S end of the W wall and it runs NNW-SSE. Drystone-walling is still visible along the side-walls. The
souterrain is roofless apart from two lintels at NNW and NNE ends.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.