Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Castletown (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09400, -8.81027
- SMR number
- GA123-030001-
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
Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA123-030001-). A linear hollow (L 14.6m; Wth 5.5m; D 0.7m), aligned NNW-SSE, may be the remains of a possible souterrain.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.