Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Monataggart, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monataggart
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave (Site of) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 51.97669, -8.78778
- SMR number
- CO061-022001-
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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 1872 Brash described a possible long cist (C0061-189---) and an ogham stone (7978) from Monataggart. Later Quarry (1896,382) revisited the site to purchase the ogham stone for the Royal Irish Academy and asked the andowner to dig on the site again in the hope of finding more ogham stones. This uncovered a stone-lined underground chamber 'about eighteen feet in length, five feet in width and five in depth ...... at the end of which were some wood ashes and the appearance of a small flue' (ibid.) Two of the upright stones had ogham inscriptions (7979; 7980). Obviously this was a separate chamber to the one opened by Brash and its size and the presence of the flue suggest a possible souterrain. 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
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- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.