Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caheratrim (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caheratrim (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.16104, -8.61005
- SMR number
- GA115-016001-
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 NE quadrant of a rath (GA115-016----). This inaccessible drystone-built souterrain (L >20m) is apparently L-shaped in plan. Some roof lintels have collapsed along the length of its long axis (L 14m; Wth 1.8m), which runs E-W, allowing a visual inspection of the passage; it is partially filled with collapse. The short axis (L c. 6m), extending from its SW end, runs N-S. Its extent was calculated by probing the ground surface.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.