Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knocknagoul, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagoul
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87743, -8.78341
- SMR number
- CO072-079002-
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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 during ploughing in 1983; investigated by R.M. Cleary (1989, 26). Two earth-cut chambers joined by creepway. Chamber 1: roughly rectangular (L 3.4m; Wth 1.6m; long axis N-S); not possible to estimate height; collapsed construction shaft at S end; blocked creepway midway W side, second creepway S end of E side to second chamber. Chamber 2: rectangular (3.4m; Wth 1.5m; H 1m; long axis NE-SW); SW end filled with loose stones and soil, probably from collapsed construction shaft; floor roughly paved. Investigator noted that blocked creepway in chamber 1 may lead to further chamber(s) or to original entrance. Fulacht fiadh (CO072-07900-1) c. 35m to W.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.