Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rathanlon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathanlon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.14516, -8.78455
- SMR number
- GA114-147001-
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 interior of a cashel (Ga114-147----). This inaccessible and partially collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L >19.7m; Wth 1.6m) is L-shaped in plan. The long axis runs NW-SE before turning NNE-SSW at its SE end. (McCaffrey 1952, 286, no. 52)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.