Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knockaunbaun (kilteskill Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunbaun (kilteskill Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15382, -8.51422
- SMR number
- GA116-066001-
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 the W sector of the interior of a rath (GA116-066----). An L-shaped hollow (L c. 20m; Wth 2.5m; D 1m) may mark the site of a collapsed souterrain. One leg of the hollow runs N-S and the other extends off its SE side and runs E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.