Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloghboley, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghboley
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.16678, -8.86415
- SMR number
- GA113-094001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the NW quadrant of a cashel (GA113-094----), beneath a house site (GA113-094). This inaccessible drystone-built souterrain appears to be roughly T-shaped in plan and consists of two chambers. A visual inspection through a blocked-up breach at the E end of the 1st chamber (L c. 10m; Wth 1.8m), which is clay filled, indicated that it runs ESE-WNW. It appears to extend beneath the cashel wall to the W. To the E of the breach, the line of the chamber is visible as a linear depression (L c. 5m). The 2nd chamber was also inspected through a blocked-up gap; it runs NNE-SSW towards the N side-wall of the 1st chamber. It was impossible to determine the point of access between the two chambers. (McCaffrey 1952, 268, no. 5a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.