Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballymarcahaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymarcahaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.13160, -8.80444
- SMR number
- GA114-016001-
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
In the W half of a rath (GA114-016----). This drystone-built souterrain consists of two chambers separated from each other by an area of collapse. The 1st chamber (L 4m; Wth 1.6m) runs E-W and present access is gained at the E end. It is currently used as a dump. The 2nd chamber (L 7.6m; Wth 1.9m) lies to the W and runs N-S. Access to it is gained via a breach at N. Some collapsed material at its SW end suggests the presence of a possible creep.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.