Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballybeg West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21136, -8.67707
- SMR number
- CO025-163----
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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, at the base of a SSE-facing slope and adjacent to a large limestone quarry. This souterrain was discovered in 2000. A collapsed opening (L 2m) revealed a single stone-built chamber (2.75m N-S; 1.3m E-W; H 1.14m). The walls are of random rubble and are corbelled. The N half of the chamber is filled with earth and stones from the collapse. One cracked lintel remains in situ at the S end of the chamber.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.