Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Skahanagh More (bantry By.) , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skahanagh More (bantry By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.71514, -9.39092
- SMR number
- CO105-074----
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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 waterlogged hollow covered with rushes and c. 120m W of a cashel (CO105-031----). Myler (1998, 23, no. 10) described an opening (diam. c. 0.5m), which gave access to flooded underground chambers extending to the SW and E. This opening was not found in 2005.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.