Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lydacan (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lydacan (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11944, -8.83183
- SMR number
- GA113-164001-
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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 (GA113-164----). This largely collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L >16.8m) is L-shaped in plan. The long axis (L 7.8m) runs NNE-SSW. Access is gained roughly midway along it where a roof lintel has collapsed. Only the NNE end of the chamber (L 4.3m; Wth 1.35m; H 1.35m) survives intact. A partly blocked recess or creep is visible in the E side-wall. To the SSW of the access point the line of the souterrain is traceable as a linear depression for a further 3.5m. At this point the depression turns sharply to the SW and continues for a further 5.5m. At its W end there is a 19th-century burial vault (L 3m), which appears to have been built on the line of the souterrain.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.