Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roxborough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17182, -8.69247
- SMR number
- GA104-291001-
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 a rath (GA104-291----), just off-centre to the W. A linear depression (15m E-W; 4.5m N-S; Dth 0.5m) marks potential collapse into a souterrain. The sides slope gently to the base, which is generally level, apart from a slight rise off-centre to the W.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.