Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballycorban, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycorban
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caves
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caves
- Coordinates
- 53.08446, -8.44980
- SMR number
- GA125-013001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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
Within W sector of the interior a rath (GA125-013----). Indicated on 1st and 3rd (1920) eds. of OS maps by two small dots aligned NW-SE and named ‘Caves’. The dots may indicate two points of access. The landowner recalled a ‘small tunnel’, which was subsequently blocked up. No visible surface trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.