Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Coolbane (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbane (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.25336, -8.82835
- SMR number
- CO015-075002-
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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
In ringfort (CO015-07501-). NMI files record that several chambers were seen in August 1934 (McCarthy 1977, 344); according to local information, earth-cut chambers were destroyed during construction of slurry pit in 1970s or early 1980s in interior of ringfort.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.