Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Tullira, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullira
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14208, -8.79372
- SMR number
- GA114-169001-
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
Just outside the S sector of a cashel (GA114-169----). According to local information, a 'man-made underground chamber' in the shape of the figure nine was noted in this area. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.