Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lismore Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismore Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19692, -8.09214
- SMR number
- GA108-164001-
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
Within the interior of a rath (GA108-164----). A roughly L-shaped depression (L >28.5m; Wth 3.4m; D c. 0.2m) may mark the site of a souterrain. It runs N-S for 16m before turning E at its S end, running E-W for 12.5m.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.