Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Carrigdarrery, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigdarrery
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85793, -8.88871
- SMR number
- CO083-019----
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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 level pasture; discovered in 1983. Investigated by Cleary (1986, 34-5) who described two rock-cut chambers, the roofs of which had collapsed. Chamber 1: irregular (2m N-S; 0.84m E-W); construction shaft in E wall; creepway (L 0.9m; Wth 0.3m) at S end. Chamber 2: roughly rectangular (1.95m N-S; 0.7m E-W; H 0.55m); construction shaft in S wall; S end narrows (Wth 0.4m) and blocked creepway leads to further chamber or original entrance. Walls of chamber 2 tapered inwards towards ceiling. Stone resting against N wall of chamber 2, adjacent to creepway opening; Cleary (ibid.) suggests this may have functioned as closing stone. Site now backfilled.
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
- Bridgeunder 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.