Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knockasarnet, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockasarnet
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08810, -9.53881
- SMR number
- KE058-093001-
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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 (KE058-093001-). According to the landowner, there is a stone-capped cavern or creepway under the briars in the interior of the rath. A linear feature (L c. 5m; Wth 3m), on a NW-SE axis, which abuts the internal face of the inner bank at E, may be part of the souterrain. No trace of the souterrain was noted, however, when the interior of the rath was cleared in the 1990s during the construction of a house to the E of the rath.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.