Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballynabortagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynabortagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.99884, -8.43290
- SMR number
- CO052-039004-
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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 pasture, on NE-facing slope. Windele (Macalister 1945, 63) recorded 'a souterrain formed in hard boulder-clay, with a beehive-shaped chamber at the end. (Two chambers according to another account)'. No visible surface trace. Levelled rectangular enclosure (CO052-03902-) and possible souterrain (CO052-057---) to NW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.