Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Levallyroe (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Levallyroe (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71377, -8.76952
- SMR number
- MA103-030002-
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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 (MA103-030001-). Knox (1911, 231) noted that ‘In the outside of the outer ring is a vertical stone about two feet high, a little in advance of the ring. Beside it to the south is a large horizontal stone in the ring [outer bank], which may be the lintel of a closed creep hole.’ Two large stones are evident in the external bank at E, one on its inner face, one on its outer face, but not in line with each other. There is no visible evidence that either represents part of a souterrain.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 November 2022
References
Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.