Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Barrees, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrees
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.71110, -9.91539
- SMR number
- CO102-033001-
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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 a coniferous forest, on a NW-facing slope overlooking Barrees valley. The souterrain was discovered during the construction of a forest road. It consists of two semicircular openings, 0.8m apart, on the W side of the road at the base of a N-S earthen bank (H 2m). The S opening (Wth 1m; H 0.3m), which is the smaller of the two, reveals the top of a largely collapsed earth-cut chamber. The N opening (Wth 2m; H 0.85m) reveals the earth-cut arched roof of a chamber extending 2m to the W and then narrowing as it slopes down to the S. Collapsed earth obscures the remainder of this chamber.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.