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Souterrain

Inchydoney Island, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Inchydoney Island, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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