Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Sheepwalk, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheepwalk
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.97259, -8.10555
- SMR number
- CO066-043----
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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
Discovered September 1970. Twohig (1973, 35-6) described single stone-built chamber (L 3.7m; Wth 1.1m; H 1.4m), roughly rectangular in plan and barrel-shaped in section; walls roughly coursed; upper courses corbelled to take roofing slabs. Ventilation shaft or possible original souterrain entrance in W end wall, now blocked.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.