Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Moneen West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15032, -8.76212
- SMR number
- GA114-139----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In flat pastureland. While in the area on site inspection in November 1982 a local man pointed out the spot where he found ‘an underground cave’, which he believed was similar to other souterrains in the area. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.