Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilnameela, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnameela
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70557, -8.90110
- SMR number
- CO109-045----
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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 1970, excavated by Twohig (1971, 120-131). Four earth-cut, sub-rectangular chambers with barrel-vaulted ceilings. Average dims. L. 3.8m; Wth 1.25m; H 0.77m. Shaft at SW end chamber 1 closed at surface by slab. Charcoal and bone fragment recovered from construction pit at N end passage chamber 1 to chamber 2. Backfilled, now no visible surface trace.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.