Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherdaly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherdaly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15825, -8.81314
- SMR number
- GA114-036----
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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 a N-facing slope in tillage. Named 'Cave' in Roman script on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The Galway-Limerick railway line now overlies it and no visible trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.