Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Glanballyma, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanballyma
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.35591, -9.60750
- SMR number
- KE022-014002-
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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
In pasture, on a S-facing slope. On the 1st ed. (1841) OS 6-inch map a ‘cave’, suggesting the presence of a souterrain, is depicted within the interior of a ringfort (KE022-014----) at W. O’Connell (1938, 145) mentions an infilled souterrain here which was often used during the ‘Troubles’ and notes that ‘it is often stated that there are steps leading down to a passage, and that there are three rooms ‘like beehives’ opening one from the other, and that one could stand in them’.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 February 2014
References
O'Connell, Capt. D.B. 1938 Miscellanea fort with souterrain Glanballyma, Co. Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 145.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.