Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carrigeen (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.28580, -8.76061
- SMR number
- CO007-108002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during tillage operations and investigated by Cleary (1987, 155). Site ruinous and in dangerous condition. Rectangular stone-built chamber (L 1m; Wth 0.9m; H c. 1m; long axis E-W), roofed with lintels. Infilled creepway (Wth 0.4m; H 0.3m), roofed with lintel, at E end of chamber may have been original entrance. Only possible to survey one chamber though undoubtedly more exist in the west side of the site. Investigator noted 'surface irregularities' and 'low levelled banks' suggestive of ringfort (CO007-10801-) on S side of souterrain.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.