Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Barrahaurin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrahaurin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.99994, -8.81392
- SMR number
- CO050-045002-
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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 (CO050-045001-). Hartnett (1939, 177) recorded 'an underground passage disclosed by three openings the principal one of which is to the west. The side walls are stone-lined and narrow towards the top where they are roofed by transverse lintels. The entrances have been deliberately blocked with large stones'; now inaccessible. Discovered in 1845 when the ringfort was cultivated as a 'cabbage-garden' (Macalister 1945, 102); apparently a number of lintels were raised and 'laid on the rampart of the fort for subsequent disposal', however one bearing an ogham inscription (CO050-045003-) was carried off by night and sold to the antiquarian John Windele for £1 (ibid.).
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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.