Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Town Lands, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Lands
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.57804, -9.03016
- SMR number
- CO143-023005-
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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 Rosscarbery to NW of St. Fachtna's Cathedral (CO143-023008-). Oval-shaped chamber (L 2.6m; Wth 1.5m) with construction shaft forming S wall; collapsed roof; creepways to N and E inaccessible (pers. comm. Rose Cleary). Recorded in 1750s (O Máidín 1958, 79).
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.