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Souterrain

Tullig More (Muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Tullig More, 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
Tullig More (Muskerry East By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.93775, -8.74938
SMR number
CO061-183----

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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 pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Discovered in 1991 following collapse; investigated by Jane O'Shaughnessy, UCC. Two interconnecting chambers, constructed at different depths below ground level. Chamber 1: stone-built, rectangular (L 3.43m; Wth 1.3m; H 1.6m; long axis NNW-SSE); walls slightly corbelled to support lintels; entrance to ventilation shaft at floor level in E wall; lintelled entrance to stone-lined creepway (L 0.5m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.4m) at S end. Chamber 2: earth-cut, oval-shaped (L 3m; Wth 1.5m; H 1.1m; long axis N-S); floor 0.7m below chamber 1; roof barrel-vaulted. Creepway has sharp downward incline because of difference in floor levels. Shallow fosse-like depression forming semi-circular arc immediately to W of souterrain could be remains of enclosing element; area site of early 19th-century settlement.

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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