Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Glenmeen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmeen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.22201, -8.45231
- SMR number
- GA106-077001-
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 a rath (GA106-077----). This drystone-built souterrain (L >10.1m) consists of a rectangular passage (L 4.1m; Wth 1.6m; max. H 1.38m) running NE-SW. Access is gained at the SW end where a section has collapsed. A linear depression (L 6m; Wth 2.7m) extending beyond the point of access indicates that the souterrain continued further to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.