Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killeenhugh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenhugh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Oun Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caves
- Coordinates
- 53.15766, -8.87125
- SMR number
- GA113-131001-
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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 S sector of a rath (GA113-131----). This well-preserved T-shaped drystone-built souterrain (L >22.5m) consists of two chambers joined at right angles by a drop-hole creep. Access is gained via a breach about mid-way along W wall of the S chamber (L 9.8m, Wth 1.98m; H 1.33-1.73m), which runs N-S and lies partly beneath the bank of the rath. A drop-hole creep (0.8m x 0.45m; L 2.8m) at its N end leads to the N chamber (L 9.9m; Wth 2.07m; H 1.13-1.62m), which runs E-W. A large blocking stone near the creep suggests that the original entrance was located in this chamber, which is now partly overlain by a road. McCaffrey (1952, 274, no. 16) mistook this souterrain as an isolated example.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 October 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.