Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13495, -8.83067
- SMR number
- GA113-013004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland, c. 45.5m to S of the conjoined raths (GA113-013---- and GA113-013002-). A stone-filled Y-shaped depression (L >16m) may mark the site of a possible collapsed souterrain or a disused gravel pit. The long axis runs NW-SE and the short axis extends from about the mid-point along its E side and runs NE-SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.