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Souterrain

Coolgarriff, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Coolgarriff, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coolgarriff
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Souterrain (1938)
Coordinates
51.93979, -8.85361
SMR number
CO060-151002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In levelled ringfort (CO060-151001-). Coleman (1945, 112-3), described an entrance in N portion of ringfort with 'series of hollows on a line curving SE and E apparently marking a sunken trench entrance to the actual mouth of the souterrain'. He noted 'debris slope' leading into passage (long axis N-S; L 10ft), upper levels of walls stone-built atop earth-cut base, roofed with slabs; earth-cut creephole (H 1ft 8in; Wth 1ft 7in) at N end. This leads to second passage similar to first (long axis N-S; L c. 6ft). Passage opens into stone-built elliptical chamber (max. H 4ft 3in; Wth 4ft; long axis NE-SW) roofed with slabs. Small lintelled creephole at NE end leads to circular earth-cut chamber (H 3ft 4in). McCarthy (1977, 198) noted that second passage was destroyed by bulldozer in May 1959. No visible surface trace.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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