Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilmartin Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmartin Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.99226, -8.79811
- SMR number
- CO050-062002-
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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 (CO050-062001-), just W of centre. Inspected by Hartnett (1939, 195) and Coleman (1947, 70-1). Two rectangular stone-built chambers roofed with lintels and connected by an earth-cut creepway. Chamber 1: (long axis N-S) measures '9ft long, 3ft wide, and 4ft 6in high' (Coleman ibid.); entered by Coleman through collapsed S end. Creepway '4ft long' at N end of W side. Chamber 2: at right angles to chamber 1, much collapsed at W end; ogham inscription (CO050-062003-) found on innermost (W) lintel. Collapsed ground now indicates position of souterrain.
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
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.