Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rathwilladoon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathwilladoon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99480, -8.87785
- SMR number
- GA128-070001-
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 centre of a rath (GA128-070----). An inaccessible souterrain, seemingly T-shaped in plan, with the 'main' passage running NNE-SSW was noted when initially inspected in July 1982. One roof lintel (L 0.9m; Wth 0.9m; H 0.3m) was noted. On a revisit in May 1992 a small stone-filled depression marked the site of the souterrain.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.