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Souterrain

Ardraw, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Ardraw, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ardraw
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.08887, -9.72272
SMR number
KE057-075001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A stone-built souterrain (KE057-075001-) was discovered in the W half of the site's interior in 1904 when sections of its roof collapsed (Cooke 1906, 3-4). The exposed portions comprised two passages. The larger passage was aligned NE-SW, was 12 feet (3.55m) long and varied from 6 feet (1.75m) to 2 feet (.6m) wide. Its lintelled roof was 5 feet 6 inches (1.6m) below the level of the interior of the rath. The second passage, close by, was aligned roughly N-S and measured 4 feet (1.2m) long by 4 feet (1.2m) wide. The passages were described by the CKFC as 'torn up and damaged . . . the stones which formed them thrown about' (1940, 153-4). Among these was 'a horseshoe-shaped stone of a crawl doorway', which probably was a porthole slab or arch stone of the type found in the souterrains at Kimego West (KE079-016----) and Kealduff Upper (KE071-006----). No surface trace of the souterrain is now apparent.

The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 454. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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