Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilquain (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquain (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.20433, -8.72538
- SMR number
- GA104-152001-
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 interior of a rath (GA104-152----). McCaffrey (1952, 223, no. 380) recorded that this souterrain was blocked up. On an inspection in March 1971 the mouth of it was visible in the N sector of the interior. It was partly blocked and was inaccessible (SMR file). When re-inspected in October 2001 no visible surface trace could be seen.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.