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Souterrain

Ballynastaig (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Ballynastaig, 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
Ballynastaig (Kiltartan By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Caves
Latest-edition OS map
Caves
Coordinates
53.11268, -8.86468
SMR number
GA113-025001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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

Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA113-025----). Two ‘Caves’ shown on the OS 6-inch maps proved on inspection to be two access points to the same poorly preserved drystone-built souterrain (L >21m). Only the westernmost access point, a displaced roof lintel, is now open; the eastern one has been covered over. At ground level the souterrain is visible as a roughly L-shaped depression. The long passage (L 13m; Wth 1.75m; H 1.3m) runs WNW-ESE. At the W end of NW side-wall an air vent is evident. The short passage (L 8m) extends off the E end this side-wall and runs NNE-SSW. Most of the latter passage has collapsed, as has the junction between both passages.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 5 January 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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