Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carrowroe (kilmeen Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowroe (kilmeen Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.20523, -8.44580
- SMR number
- GA106-040001-
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
In the NE quadrant of the interior of a rath (GA040001-). The site of this souterrain is marked by an oval depression (4m N-S; 1m E-W; D 0.5m). No stonework is visible. A similar depression immediately to its S may also be related to it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.