Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rahan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11830, -8.55476
- SMR number
- CO033-135----
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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, on S-facing slope c. 80m NW of Belanagare well (CO033-074----). According to local information, a souterrain was discovered here in the 1990s when the ground collapsed during ploughing and revealed a stone-built passage orientated N-S.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.