Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Gortnacowly, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacowly
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.72920, -9.33377
- SMR number
- CO106-032----
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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
Discovered March 1941. Earth cut. Closed prior to inspection. (UCC).Myler (1998, 66) records that a souterrain was discovered here 'when a horse's leg sank during ploughing in 1938/39'. He also recorded that 'there is a tradition of a ringfort in this area'. Upon inspection by a local school teacher and his pupils they found a 'room which had a tunnel going north from it into another room measuring 10 ft. by 6ft. and high enough to stand in. There were drystone walls on some of the tunnel walls'. Myler (1998, 66) finally notes that 'there is now no evidence of its exact location'.
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: 24 January 2013
References
Myler, D. 1998 An archaeological survey of the Mealagh Valley. Mealagh Valley Community Development Association.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.