Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Tipper South, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tipper South
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.21302, -6.62953
- SMR number
- KD019-036002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a rectangular enclosure (KD019-036001-). According to local information, in the 1930's, the souterrain could be entered through a hole in the stone-lintelled roof of an E-chamber, to the W of which a second chamber was also accessible, and beyond which lay a narrower passage, possible an original entrance, which was blocked. In 1972, the souterrain was inaccessible but a depression in the NW corner of the enclosure and a second depression running N-S through the interior and turning to run inside the enclosing bank along the S, and turning again to runs a short distance along the W might indicate its course (SMR file). The depression survives (D 0.4m; av. Wth 2m), and suggests the line of a partially robbed-out souterrain.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.