Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Aghamanister And Spital, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghamanister And Spital
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.62255, -8.77724
- SMR number
- CO136-023----
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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 1969. Single subrectangular chamber; stone built and roofed with capstones, two of which were still in place. Stone-built creepway in NE corner. McCarthy (1977, 134) suggests that creepway was construction shaft. Infilled; no visible surface trace. (UCC).
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
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.