Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyhugh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhugh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.05568, -8.82716
- SMR number
- GA122-004001-
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 SW quadrant of a cashel (GA122-004----). The entrance to this souterrain is blocked up with a flagstone and access is impossible. According to the landowner, an 'underground passage' extended from the flagstone, in a northerly direction, towards an area of collapse which is evident to the NW of the centre of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.