Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Inchydoney Island, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchydoney Island
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.60114, -8.87473
- SMR number
- CO135-104003-
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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 tillage, a short distance S of Inchydoney Church (CO135-104004-). Discovered April 1985. Cleary (1989, 30-1) describes six earth-cut chambers. Chambers 1, 3 and 4 are rectangular in plan; others are irregular. Lintelled creepway on NE side of chamber 1 may be original entrance; second inaccessible creepway on S side may lead to further chambers. Cleary notes that 'the creepway to chamber 5 is unusual in that it consists of a circular opening, about 70cm wide, and decends by a steep drop into chamber 5'. Construction shafts occur in chambers 5 and 6. Numerous rat bones on floor of chamber 6 but these are 'medieval and later in date'.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.