Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lavally (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lavally (Kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07684, -8.80837
- SMR number
- GA123-066----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an area of low-lying pastureland and outcropping rock, c. 40m to the E of a river. This drystone-built souterrain was initially visited by the Survey in August 1982. It consisted of a chamber (L 7.1m; Wth 1.5m; H 1.6m) running NE-SW and access as gained at its SW end. From the NE end a narrow, partially blocked, rock-cut passage ran SE for c. 1.8m and then curved to the SW. Two recesses were evident in the SE wall. A revisit in May 1992 indicated that the souterrain had been filled in and no visible surface trace now survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.