Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilcrea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcrea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.86165, -8.69463
- SMR number
- CO084-026003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
To E of centre of ringfort (CO084-026001-). Described in 1864 by Pitt-Rivers and Caulfield as 'a beehive chamber 4ft 6in high, lined with "lime and very small stones", with a second chamber nearby connected by a drain-like opening, with a gallery to the surface' (Twohig 1987, 43). In the Cork Constitution newspaper this is described as a ' "covered passage 2ft square, opening to south, leading to a chamber 4ft x 3ft 3in closed at the top, and another passage of same dimensions as the former with chamber 5ft broad x 4ft 8in high" ' (Twohig, ibid.). No visible surface trace. Second souterrain to SW (CO084-026002-).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.