Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballinduff (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinduff (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.12334, -8.80307
- SMR number
- GA114-003----
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
On an E-facing slope in scrubland overlooking a turlough to the SE. This drystone-built souterrain (L >9m) is roughly L-shaped in plan. The long axis runs NW-SE and the short axis extends from its SE end and runs NE-SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.