Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Eskerboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskerboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21189, -8.30241
- SMR number
- GA107-068001-
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
According to local information, a souterrain in the SE quadrant of the rath (GA107-068----) was blocked up in the 1930s after a number of sheep fell into it. No visible surface trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.