Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Peake, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Peake
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.92787, -8.78294
- SMR number
- CO072-008----
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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 in 1755 and investigated by the Rev. Marmaduke Cox (Smith 1750, vol. 2, 409-10). Passage leading into fifteen, possibly seventeen, large chambers (H c. 1.5m); access to further chambers blocked by large stone. One chamber said to contain five hundred skeletons, another five, some of which were burnt; carved wood comb and comb-case also found. Rev. Cox (ibid.) noted that the souterrain was 'about 150 yards' from a 'Danish fort,' probably the ringfort (CO072-009---) to the E.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.