Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Masonbrook, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Masonbrook
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.18142, -8.51054
- SMR number
- GA106-122001-
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 a rath (GA106-122001-). This drystone-built souterrain (L 5m; Wth 1.33m; H 1.75m) is aligned NW-SE. Access was gained through a gap between two roof lintels at the NW end. No corbelling was evident and six roof lintels were noted. Beyond the collapse at the NW end, the passage appeared to veer off to the WNW.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 174/1943).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.