Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilburn, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilburn
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21177, -8.61196
- SMR number
- CO025-025----
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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 ploughing in 1981 and investigated by Power (1984, 40-1). Collapsed lintel in roof allowed access to subrectangular stone-built chamber (L 3.2m; Wth 1.2-1.5m; H 1.5-1.8m; long axis N-S); walls corbelled; N end squared off; S end rounded; roofed by three sandstone lintels. Creepway (H 0.35m; Wth 0.35m) at N end; inaccessible but appeared to lead to narrow passage which rose steeply towards ground level, probably an 'entrance shaft' (ibid.).
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.