Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Grange East (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange East (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21018, -8.68455
- SMR number
- CO024-063----
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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 pasture. Discovered in 1963 and investigated by M.J. O'Kelly (UCC). According to McCarthy (1977, 255-6), comprised two stone-built chambers. Chamber 1: wedge-shaped (L 3m; Wth 0.8-1.3m; H 1.3m; long axis NE-SW); SW end narrower than NE; roofed with lintels (one collapsed); side walls corbelled; creepway at SW end to chamber 2. Creepway (L 0.3m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.7m) stone-lined and roofed with lintel. Chamber 2 inaccessible; chamber 1 remains accessible through collapsed roof.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.