Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Pollnagarragh West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollnagarragh West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.20355, -8.78504
- SMR number
- GA104-228001-
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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 W half of the interior of a rath (GA104-228----). A marginal note in McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 58) describes the souterrain as 'a curving passage c. 33' [c. 10m]' that 'leads to a chamber c. 15' x 8' [c. 5m by 2.4m]'. All that survives is a small stone-filled depression.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.