Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Baile An Bhaoithín, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Bhaoithín
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KE042-159----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a souterrain has not been identified. Cuppage (1986, 276-7, no. 828) recorded the following details, under the entry for Tobermaolgga (KE042-100001-); 'Tobermalogga/Tobar na Molaige: This site lies in the N corner of a field at the foot of the E slopes of Croaghmarhin, about 400m E of An Raingiléis (827). The focal point of the site was probably the holy well and cross-slab, and the mounds and slabs laid on edge in the irregularly-shaped area between these and the field walls are probably the remains of penitential stations. An underground passage was discovered in an adjacent field c. 1930 (O'Sullivan 1931, 524)'.
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
O'Sullivan, T.F. 1931 Romantic hidden Kerry. Tralee. The Kerryman.