Kilmurvy basement

The basement of Kilmurvy ( Irish Cill Mhuirbhigh ) is south of the village, near the Teampall Mac Duagh and the so-called Cyclops Wall on the Aran island of Inishmore in County Galway in Ireland . In the case of basements , a distinction is made between “earth-cut”, “rock-cut”, “mixed”, “stone built” and “wooden” (e.g. Coolcran, County Fermanagh ). The exact location of the ( rock-cut ) basement is unknown. Kilmurvy's basement is one of six in Connemara and the only one in the Aran Islands.

The 1834 letter from George Petrie (1790–1866), the father of Irish archeology, mentions the remains of several underground chambers carved into the rock and covered with slabs near the Cyclopean wall. Apparently these are the nine or ten elongated cells near the ruins of the “Teampall Mac Duagh” mentioned later by TJ Westropp (1860–1922) lying in groups of three, connected by corridors.

See also

• Basement in Ireland
• Oghamstone from Kilmurvy

literature

• Mark Clinton: The Souterrains of Ireland. Wordwell, Bray 2001, ISBN 1-869857-49-6 .
• Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway. Vol. 1: West Galway (including Connemara and the Aran Islands). Stationery Office, Dublin 1993, ISBN 0-7076-0322-6 .