Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Clonleigh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonleigh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.69267, -8.48745
- SMR number
- CO125-009002-
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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 ringfort (CO125-009001-). Cremen (1924, 72) records 'what appeared to be a souterrain extending from the lios in the form of a slightly raised path running a considerable distance through the field to where a number of pillar stones are (CO125-010---). We tested the pathway with a crowbar and found it covered a hollow space and was no doubt a souterrain'. No visible surface trace; may have been a flagged drain.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.