Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rooaunmore (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooaunmore (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15412, -8.84177
- SMR number
- GA113-188001-
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
Within N half of a rath (GA113-188----). This souterrain has collapsed and is indicated by a linear stone-filled depression (L <10m) running E-W. (McCaffrey 1952, 278, no. 17a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 April 2018
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.