Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Drommahane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drommahane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09740, -8.68771
- SMR number
- CO041-179----
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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 (CO041-075---). Depression (L 8m; max. Wth 5m; D 0.45m) extending from centre towards bank to W may indicate position of collapsed souterrain chambers. Bowman (1934, 561) also noted that a 'depression on the S.W. 5 yds. by 4 by 2 ft. deep, indicates Site of Souterrain'.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.