Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Glenlough, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenlough
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.71851, -9.67288
- SMR number
- CO103-028006-
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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 the SE quadrant of a hut site (CO103-028005), the most westerly of a pair of conjoined huts. A D-shaped opening (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m) in the inner face of the enclosing bank of the hut site leads, according to local information, to an 'underground passage'. The opening is now closed up with stones.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.