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Souterrain

Coolnaharragill Lower, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Coolnaharragill Lower, 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
Coolnaharragill Lower
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Cave
Coordinates
52.03451, -9.99666
SMR number
KE063-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

This souterrain, marked 'Cave' on the OS maps, is situated in rough pasture on the lower NE slopes of Drung Hill. It consists of a short passage and two rectangular chambers which are set at right angles to one another and linked by a fairly long creepway. The walls of the passage and chambers are constructed of random drystone coursing, and are roofed with lintels. The W facing entrance to the souterrain measures .55m x .75m, and gives access to a passage which extends E for 1.7m; it is 8m high and .8m wide. A short creepway, .4m x .6m, in its E end-wall leads into the N end of a 3.1m long chamber, aligned N-S; it measures 1.4m high and .95m wide at the base. A lintelled creepway, .5m high and .5m wide, extends from its S end-wall to a point midway along the N side-wall of the second chamber. The sides of the 1.1m long creepway are formed of upright slabs. The second chamber is orientated E-W and is 3.5m long, 1m wide at base and 1.1m high. A point of entry from the surface occurs at its W end.

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. 864. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 29 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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