Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killinny East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinny East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09745, -8.90842
- SMR number
- GA122-102----
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
Some 70m to the SW of a church (GA122-101004-). Indicated and named 'Cave' in Roman script on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. According to local information, this possible souterrain was discovered during farm-building operations. On inspection no visible surface trace survived.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.