Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rockfield Middle, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfield Middle
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.12832, -9.63088
- SMR number
- KE057-023001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rath (KE057-023----). In the 1940s it was recorded that the roof of a large passage had collapsed giving access to a souterrain in the centre of this rath (Minutes of the Co. Kerry Field Club, 1945, vol. 1, 610-11). The passage led into a chamber (Wth 4ft [1.22m]; H 5ft [1.52m]) roofed with stone slabs and a 'fireplace...with a well constructed flue' and an air shaft overhead were also described (ibid.). At least one further chamber was discerned at the time but it was not investigated. The landowner recalls an entrance into a small chamber from where access to a similar chamber was gained. Six ogham stones (KE057-023002-, KE057-023003-, KE057-023004-, KE057-023005-, KE057-023006-, KE057-023007-) were used as roof lintels in the souterrain.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.