Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Baile Uí Chorráin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Uí Chorráin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.23256, -10.31412
- SMR number
- KE034-017002-
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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
At the edge of the flat boggy plain drained by the lower reaches of the Feohanagh river. A pair of conjoined, oval to circular huts, their walls now reduced to grass-grown banks, c. 0.5m high.
Within the larger W hut KE034-017---- is a souterrain (KE034-017002-), now lacking its roofing slabs. The passage measures 4.5m long x .6m wide x 1m high.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1107. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.