Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Streamstown (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Streamstown (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.16733, -8.41609
- SMR number
- GA106-158001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the NW sector of a rath (GA106-158----). This drystone-built souterrain (L >20.5m), roughly L-shaped in plan, consists of three chambers and two creeps. Access is gained at the SE end of the 1st chamber (L 5m; Wth 1.6m max.; H 1.76m max.) which runs SE-NW. Traces of the side-walls (L 2m) extend to the SE indicating that the chamber extended further in this direction. At its NW end a simple creep (Wth 0.9m) leads to the 2nd chamber (L 7.5m; H 1.45m max.), which also runs SE-NW. Another creep at the N end of W side-wall leads to the 3rd chamber (L >6m) which is inaccessible due to collapse. It appears to run NE-SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.