Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyglass, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO051-169----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Investigated by Colonel A. Lane Fox and Richard Caulfield in 1864 (Caulfield 1866, 294), in a field N of holy well (CO051-098----). Caulfield (ibid.) described an oval stone-built chamber '9 feet by 3 feet 4 inches and 4 feet high' with narrow passages on the W and E; the latter led to a second similar chamber '9 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 2 inches and 5 feet high'. Souterrain entered through a hole 'on one side of a broad earthen ditch' (ibid.) possibly belonging to the ringfort (CO051-090----). Exact location not known.
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