Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Bengour West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bengour West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79959, -8.90381
- SMR number
- CO095-129----
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
Cleary (1989, 26) describes five earth-cut chambers, discovered 1983; all chambers rectangular or subrectangular in plan. Present access through chamber 1. Built-up construction shafts at N end of chamber 3 and E end of chamber 4; virtually collapsed E end of chamber 1 is possible construction shaft.
Chamber 1: 3.35m E-W; 1.5m N-S; H 0.9m.
Chamber 2: 2.1m N-S; 1.1m E-W; H 1m.
Chamber 3: 2.9m N-S; 1.3m E-W; H 0.9m.
Chamber 4: 3.1m E-W; 1.3m NE-SW; H 1.1m.
Chamber 5: 2.2m NW-SE; 1.25m SW-NE; H 0.95m.
Proximity to spring causes waterlogging in chambers 1-3 and Cleary notes that function as storage area is therefore unlikely.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.