Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballykine Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykine Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.55567, -9.33867
- SMR number
- MA120-033002-
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
In woodland, located on top of a rocky ridge. Knox (1904, 100) records this souterrain as follows: ‘In the flat above the castle [MA120-033001-] a couple of stones have fallen into the cave of an old fort [MA120-033003-] which occupied the end of the ridge. This would be the Cashel or Caher of the O’Caidhins, who have left their name in Ballykine, Baile O’Caidhin.'
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 October 2014
References
Knox, H.T. 1903 Ballykine Castle. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 3, 95-101
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.