Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Manning, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Manning
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.18573, -8.33294
- SMR number
- CO027-090----
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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
On limestone knoll. Recorded by Courtenay Moore (1900, 373) on the land of Mr Rialli [sic]; also investigated by J.C. Coleman (1947, 72-3). Entrance (Wth 1.05m) in NW face of quarry. Stone-built passage (L 4.15m; Wth 1.41m; H 1.72m; long axis NE-SW), roofed with lintels, sloped downwards to creepway (L 0.79m; Wth 0.68m; H 0.68m). Creepway allowed entry to stone-built beehive-shaped chamber (2.7m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW; H 2.69m), roofed by single capstone. Fragments of two quern stones noted in corbelling of chamber. Second similar souterrain (CO027-167---) close by. (McCarthy 1977, 297-8; Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 129; all measurements pers. comm. M. Monk)
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.