Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lackendarragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackendarragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.07957, -8.76287
- SMR number
- CO041-044002-
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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 NW quadrant of enclosure (CO041-04401-); standing stone (CO041-04405-) and ringfort (CO041-04404-) 28.5m to SE. Windele had entrance cleared and entered souterrain in 1850 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 334). Recorded as 'the entrance to a cave (the mouth of which is open)' in the OS Field Book of 1839 (ibid.). Described by McCarthy (1977, 284-5; compass directions amended), based on Windele's investigations and a plan by S.P. O Riordáin, as entrance passage and at least two stone-built chambers joined by creepways. Chamber 1: (L 2.28m; Wth 1m; H 1.52m; long axis NW-SE) irregular in plan; side walls corbelled; original entrance passage (blocked) at NW end; blocked creepway in N corner; creepway (L 1.21m; Wth 0.3m) at SE end to chamber 2. Chamber 2: (L 2.6m; Wth 1.21m; H 1.52m; long axis ENE-WSW) subrectangular in plan; side walls corbelled. At NNE end, stone with linear scores hangs from roof 0.3m out from wall. Opening to souterrain still visible.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.