Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Claragh More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claragh More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO039-138----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Broker (1937, 53) recorded a 'circular underground chamber, 12 feet diameter, side walls 6 feet high and roof top 8 feet high', found in sandpit in 1930. Second chamber of dry-stone construction 'like beehive' containing ashes and one bone. Passage extended S from this '3 feet wide by 4 feet high' , explored for 40 feet. Second exit from beehive chamber was 'a hole 3 feet square, facing north'. Exact location not known.
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