Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Lack, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lack
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.15508, -9.89263
- SMR number
- KE046-013001-
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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
KE046-013---- lies about 170m from the N shore of Castlemaine Harbour. The present remains are confused and difficult to interpret but the site is known locally as a fort and formerly contained an underground passage. The site occupies the NW corner of a field and it consists of a roughly semi-circular, stony mound, defined along its NW side by a field wall. The mound is up to 1m high and a maximum of 10m long. A low, stony bank, .6m high and c. 3m wide, extends N-S for 14.5m directly E of the mound.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 717. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.