Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Derryfrench, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryfrench
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Subterraneous Passage
- Latest-edition OS map
- Subterraneous Passage
- Coordinates
- 53.16519, -8.39587
- SMR number
- GA116-046001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the SW quadrant of a rath (GA116-046----). This partially collapsed souterrain (L >13) consists to two passages connected by a drop-hole creep. It appears to be T-shaped in plan. The 1st passage (L c. 4m; Wth 0.96m; H 0.99m) runs N-S. Access is gained via a breach near its N end and beyond it, to the N, the passage is filled with rubble. A linear depression (L 9m) indicates that this section to the S of the access point continued further to the S. A blocked-up drop-hole creep in the N end of this passage appears to have accessed a 2nd passage which extended to its E. Surface depressions suggest that it has collapsed.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.