Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Icehouse
Marblehill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marblehill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ice Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Icehouse
- Coordinates
- 53.08351, -8.47570
- SMR number
- GA125-124003-
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
This grass-covered circular icehouse, which is constructed of mortared coursed masonry, was built into the external face of the inner bank of a rath (GA125-124001-) at NE. A pointed arch opening leads to a short passageway (L 2.5m; H 1.7m) that accesses the interior, which is barrel shaped (int. diam. 3m; H 3.9m). The roof is domed and corbelled. It was built c. 1780 (see www.buildingsofireland.ie last accessed 16 February 2018).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Pumpunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.