Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Coolgarriv (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolgarriv (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08120, -9.51542
- SMR number
- KE066-040001-
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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 (KE066-040----). Two depressions (L c. 1m; Wth 1m; D 0.25m) in the SW quadrant of the rath may indicate a collapsed souterrain chamber. According to a local correspondent writing in 1939, the rath had 'underground chambers' which connected to a souterrain (KE066-041----) on the E side of the railway (SMR file). This is probably the 'blocked entrance to a souterrain', recorded in the 1940s in the centre of an 'old fort' (ITA).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.