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Souterrain

Killanully, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Killanully, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killanully
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.82420, -8.44762
SMR number
CO086-048001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the SW quadrant of a rath (CO086-048----). This souterrain was discovered during the excavation of the rath in 1992 in advance of an expansion of a limestone quarry; it was subsequently excavated. It consisted of a single curving passage (L 11.3m; Wth 0.96m; H c. 1m), 1.85m below the present ground level. The S section of the passage was described as being of 'post and panel construction' while the N part was composed of drystone-walling with a few orthostats placed near the entrance (ibid.). Only one roof lintel remained in situ. It had been placed on a stack of drystone-walling. The souterrain had been backfilled in the past and contained five separate fills with occasional inclusions of animal bone, molluscs and charcoal. (Mount 1992; Mount 1993, 10)

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

References

Mount, C. 1993 Killanully: (1) ringfort and souterrain (2) rectangular enclosure. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1992: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 10-11. Bray. Wordwell Ltd.

Mount, C. 1992 ‘Killanully, Co. Cork.' In Digging up Cork, Archaeological Excavations in Cork. Cork Public Museum, 14-17,

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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