Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cool, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.20770, -9.91049
- SMR number
- KE036-078----
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
This souterrain is located on the steep SE facing slopes of a small valley that extends SW from Glenfais. Though there is no tradition of any associated monument, 7 ringforts occur within 600m of the site.
A single lintel is visible on the surface but the passage, extending at least 3m to NNW, is filled in to within .25m of its roof and is therefore inaccessible. The passage, .7m wide at roof level, is constructed of drystone masonry and roofed by a series of large flat slabs.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 755. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.