Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Caherkeen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherkeen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.65979, -10.03675
- SMR number
- CO114-067002-
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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 an enclosure (CO114-067001-). The bank of the enclosure is being eroded at N by a river and traces of the rounded roof (Wth c. 1.3m) of an earth-cut chamber are visible 1m below ground level. The chamber is largely filled with clay but two small openings (H 0.25m), which extend underground to the S for c. 1.5m, are visible. Roughly 3m to the S, in the interior of the enclosure, a hole (diam. 0.2m) in the bottom of a depression is further evidence of a collapsed chamber.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.