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Souterrain

Ballyglass West (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Ballyglass West, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyglass West (Dunkellin By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Caves
Latest-edition OS map
Caves
Coordinates
53.13545, -8.83121
SMR number
GA113-013003-

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David 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

Centrally located within a rath (GA113-013002-). When initially visited by the Survey in 1982 this souterrain was blocked up. Its entrance (Wth 3.8m; H 0.3m) was incorporated in the NW end of a low earthen bank which ran NW-SE through the interior of the monument. When revisited in 1984 most of this monument had been levelled and a barn was erected within the W half of the interior. No visible surface trace of the souterrain survived.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 14 October 2016

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 6/1984).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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