Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Moneen East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.16290, -8.75356
- SMR number
- GA114-127----
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 flat pastureland. Indicated and named 'Cave' in Roman script on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a souterrain.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.