Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilmaclenine, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmaclenine
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19778, -8.72340
- SMR number
- CO024-053----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In tillage. Discovered in 1973 and investigated by Twohig (1976, 23-4). Collapse in centre of roof allowed access to roughly rectangular stone-built chamber (L 3.6m; Wth 1m; H 1m; long axis E-W); roofed with limestone lintels, six in situ; side walls corbelled. Floor of limestone bedrock showed evidence that it had been chipped away in an attempt to level it. Stone-filled shaft at W end, leading towards surface, was possibly original entrance. 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.