Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rathcoola East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoola East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01096, -8.72064
- SMR number
- CO050-031002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 (8551). Hartnett (1939, 207) noted 'a collapsed souterrain inside the rampart to the North. There is a round hole 3 feet in diameter and 6 feet deep with a further few feet of loose collapsed earth at the bottom. A short passage from this leads towards the rampart. There is no masonry in either passage or opening'. No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.