Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
An Bóthar Buí, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Bóthar Buí
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.12502, -10.31561
- SMR number
- KE053-009001-
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
Oval rath KE053-009---- with souterrain KE053-009001- lies at the junction of 4 fields on a gentle N facing slope.
When the laneway was being widened about 9 years ago, a souterrain was discovered outside the bank in the S sector, but was subsequently covered over again. It consisted of 2 circular, beehive-shaped chambers connected by a passage. Neither chamber was high enough to provide standing room.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 353. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 6 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.