Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carn, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20329, -8.53475
- SMR number
- GA105-051001-
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 WSW sector of a cashel (GA105-051----). This collapsed souterrain is defined by an L-shaped depression (L >8m). Its long axis (L 4.7m; Wth 1.6m) runs ENE-WSW and the short axis (L 3.4m; Wth 1.7m) extends from its SW side and runs SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.