Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Gortymadden, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortymadden
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.20172, -8.41517
- SMR number
- GA106-080001-
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 NW quadrant of the interior of a rath (GA106-080----). No trace of this souterrain is visible. It may have been filled in and the low mound visible may mark its site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.