Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Shangarry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shangarry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.18216, -8.41791
- SMR number
- GA106-151001-
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 NW quadrant of a rath (GA106-151----). This well-preserved drystone-built souterrain (L >13.5m) consists of two chambers connected by a creep. The 1st chamber (L 3.9m; Wth 1.9m) runs ESE-WNW. Access is gained at its ESE end. A creep (L 1.9m; Wth 0.8m; H c. 0.4m) at the N end of the W side-wall leads to the 2nd chamber (L 7.6m; Wth 1.8m; H 1.7m) which runs NNE-SSW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.