Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherkelly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherkelly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.14306, -8.79928
- SMR number
- GA114-038001-
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 the NW quadrant of a rath (GA114-038----). This souterrain consists of a lintelled and dry-stone built passage (L 4-4.5m Wth 1.2m) which runs N-S. The access point at the S end is now blocked up with stones. A depression (L 4m) to the S of this may indicate a section that has collapsed.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.