Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kealmanagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kealmanagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09927, -9.03302
- SMR number
- CO039-232002-
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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 ringfort (CO039-23201-). Discovered when roof of chamber collapsed under weight of machinery. Opening gave access to single, stone-built chamber (Wth 1.83m; H 1.34m) with corbelled roof. Creepway (min. L 1.1m; Wth 0.35m; H 0.57m; long axis NW-SE) at NW side; side walls stone-built for a distance of 0.52m on SW side and 0.45m on NE side; mixture of rock-cut and stone-built beyond this; roofed with two lintels and natural rock; blocked by collapse after 1.1m.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.