Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballybeg (costello By.),tullaghaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (costello By.),tullaghaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72744, -8.70584
- SMR number
- MA103-019002-
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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
In a rath (MA103-019001). According to local information, there is a souterrain in the rath. A depression (Wth 1.5-3m; max. D 0.7m) in a raised area in the NW quadrant of the rath may be a collapsed souterrain passage. It curves from the SW, where it is shallower and narrower, to the NE where it terminates against the townland wall which crosses the rath interior. Another shallow, roughly circular depression (5m E−W; 2.6m N−S) abuts the inner edge of the rath bank in the NE quadrant of the interior. However, no structural features are evident to confirm that either of these depressions is part of a souterrain.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.