Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ardrahan North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrahan North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15751, -8.80766
- SMR number
- GA114-001006-
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 a graveyard (GA114-001004-). McCaffrey (1952, 279, no. 4) recorded that this souterrain was located ‘immediately east’ of the round tower (GA114-001005-). According to local information, a stone-built ‘cave’, running NE-SW towards the tower, was accessible in the early 1950s. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.