Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloghnakeava, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnakeava
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05165, -8.80287
- SMR number
- GA129-009001-
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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 S half of a cashel (GA129-009001-). This partially collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L >14m) is L-shaped in plan and consists of two passages connected by a drop-hole creep. The 1st passage (L 9m; Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) runs SE-NW; the creep (L 1.4m; Wth 0.5m; H0.3m) extends from its NW end. Due to collapse both of these sections are inaccessible. Traces of a small N-S running recess evident near the NW end of the S side-wall of the creep may indicate an air vent or another creep. The 2nd passage (L c. 5m; Wth 1.7m; H 1.2-1.5m) extends from the creep and runs NE-SW. Access is gained via a breach at its NE end.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.