Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyshea,Pollnashinnagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshea,Pollnashinnagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.17394, -8.70493
- SMR number
- GA104-065001-
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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
Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA104-065----). McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 150) refers to the
presence of a souterrain. It was subsequently robbed out and an L-shaped depression (L>17.5m) running NNE-SSW for 11m and E-W for 6.5m marks its site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.