Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Glenaglogh South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenaglogh South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.98145, -8.86414
- SMR number
- CO060-051----
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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 small plantation of trees to W of house. Indicated only on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Entrance now blocked up. Possibly same as souterrain recorded by McCarthy (1977, 251) as 'in orchard'; exact location not known. Consisted of several chambers (total L 9m), the first being stone-built (Wth 1.21m; H 1.8m); not fully explored.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.