Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rahaly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahaly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.13814, -8.75993
- SMR number
- GA114-143----
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 a raised area S of Fahy’s Lough. This rectangular drystone-built souterrain (L 6m; Wth 1.4m; H 1.2m) runs ENE-WSW. Disturbance around its WSW end suggested that it may originally have been L-shaped in plan and continued further to the S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.