Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Kilcock Lower, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcock Lower
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.51868, -9.55190
- SMR number
- KE005-028001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated immediately S of Lynch's house on pastureland, univallate rath KE005-028---- is enclosed by a bank of earth and stone morphology.
According to Mr Lynch, underground passages (KE005-028001-) were found immediately NW of this site in his father's time. However, they are not evident today.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 286. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.