Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Boherascrub West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherascrub West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21180, -8.71108
- SMR number
- CO024-049002-
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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 levelled ringfort (CO024-04901-). Investigated by Cleary (1987, 155-8), who described single rectangular stone-built chamber (L 3.4m; Wth 1.3m; H c. 1.3m; long axis E-W); roofed with lintels; present access through collapsed lintel. Infilled creepway (L 0.5m) at E end roofed by single slab. Possibly other chambers beyond this creepway. No visible surface trace.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.