Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloonnahaha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnahaha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04930, -8.82708
- SMR number
- GA128-035001-
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 WNW sector of a cashel (GA128-035----). This largely collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L >18.2m) is L-shaped in plan. The shorter axis (L 8m; Wth 1.2m; max. H 0.7) runs E-W and the longer axis (L 10.2m; Wth 2.2m; max. H 0.6) extends from its NW end and runs N-S. Access is gained at the E end.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.