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Souterrain

Barrahaurin, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Barrahaurin, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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