Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilmore (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15932, -8.24814
- SMR number
- GA117-057001-
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
Within a rath (GA117-057----). According to local information, there is a souterrain in the rath. Its site may be marked by a rectangular depression (N-S; L >11.6m; Wth 2.4m; D c. 0.6m) in the S sector of the interior. At the S end of the depression a number of large slabs may be displaced roof lintels.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.