Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Oughtihery, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtihery
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96866, -8.86934
- SMR number
- CO060-033----
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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
On NE-facing slope. Investigated in 1970 by D.C. Twohig (1971, 77-8). Discovered in 1960 during ploughing by Department of Forestry resulting in displacement of two lintels and partial collapse of walling. Twohig (ibid.) described single stone-built wedge-shaped chamber (L 3.15m; max. Wth 1.26m; H 1.5m); roof lintels supported on corbels. At S end, opening at floor level to low passage (L 1m); inaccessible; investigator suggests creephole to second chamber or original entrance.
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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.