Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballyhank, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhank
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (Site of) (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.83136, -8.60984
- SMR number
- CO085-067002-
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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 SW quadrant of ringfort (CO085-067001-). First described by J. Windele in 1843 as stone-built, zig-zag, in three sections; lengths for each section are 5.48m; 4.87m and 5.48m (McCarthy 1977, 161). Brash (1879, 140) stated that it had 'rectangular chambers connected by the usual narrow passages and extending for a length of 52ft'. Six capstones had ogham inscriptions (CO085-067003-; CO085-067004-; CO085-067005-; CO085-067006-; CO085-067007-; CO085-067008-; these are now in the National Museum of Ireland. No visible surface trace of souterrain.
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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.