Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballynastaig (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
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-
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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.