Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rakerin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rakerin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06910, -8.78266
- SMR number
- GA123-082001-
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 N sector of the interior of a possible rath (GA123-082----). No visible surface trace of the souterrain survives. A school was built to the SW and the school yard now overlies the site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 31 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.