Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Glanturkin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanturkin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80159, -8.19242
- SMR number
- CO100-010002-
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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 centre of levelled ringfort (CO100-01001-). Discovered in 1982 and surveyed by R.M Cleary. Souterrain earth-cut with much collapse. Only long creepway (L 19m; Wth 0.5m - 1m), curving round from E-W, could be explored. W end of this expanded to 1.5m in width and may be considered a chamber. Blocked creepways lead N and E from this. Further S and SE along main creepway are two more creepways leading NE and NW. At E end of main creepway further creepway turned sharply inwards and upwards towards groundlevel. Cleary suggests that all creepways, except extreme N, led into a central construction pit (Cleary, R.M. pers. comm.). No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.