Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lisnagranshy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagranshy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.19619, -8.77249
- SMR number
- GA104-181001-
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 NW quadrant of a rath (GA104-181----). This rectangular drystone-built chamber (L >7m), which runs SE-NW, is inaccessible due to collapse. (Knox and Redington 1916, 179-80; McCaffrey 1952, 62, 65, 238, no. 101)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Knox, H.T. and Redington, M. 1915-16 Some rath-caves in and near the barony of Dunkellin. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 178-90.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.