Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Curraghcrowly West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghcrowly West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.72309, -8.95583
- SMR number
- CO109-023----
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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 1929, investigated by Somerville (1930, 1-15). Five rock-cut chambers with barrel-vaulted ceilings. Original entrance S end chamber 1, with 3 rock-cut steps leading from surface; access 1929 through roof chamber 3. Wall recesses in all chambers. Four air vents noted; deep narrow rock-cut trench extending 12.2m N from chamber 5, in base of which flat-bottomed trough noted (D 0.45m; Wth 0.45m). Infilled; no visible surface trace. (McCarthy 1977, 205-210).
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: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.