Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carrownamaddra, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownamaddra
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not located
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not located
- Coordinates
- 53.14165, -8.97263
- SMR number
- GA112-002----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating pastureland. According to local information, a ‘cave’ known as the 'lair' of the 'Gadaí Dubh (Black Thief)' was uncovered by during bulldozing operations just inside a field wall on the E side of a roadway. It appears to have been aligned E-W as on the other side of the roadway 'slab stones' where found when the area beside the wall was dug to a depth of about '5ft' (c. 1.5m); this was subsequently blocked up. No visible surface traces survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.