Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilmartin Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmartin Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.99465, -8.78093
- SMR number
- CO050-065002-
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 S half of ringfort (CO050-065001-). Investigated by Hartnett in 1930. McCarthy (1977, 274) recorded 'passage, stone-built (Wth 0.7m; H 0.75m). Walls irregularly coursed, corbelled. Some of capstones 20cm below surface'. Collapsed ground now indicates position.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.