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Souterrain

Kealduff Upper, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Kealduff Upper, 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
Kealduff Upper
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.00994, -9.99944
SMR number
KE071-056002-

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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

Located on the bog-covered floor of the Glenbeigh horseshoe, on a slight rise immediately above Lough Naparka. A complex of five rectangular huts and a souterrain occurs within a network of field walls, partly submerged in boggy pasture.

The drystone-built souterrain (KE071-056002-) consists of two passages set at right angles to one another and communicated by a double lintelled creepway. The E-W passage measures 2.7m long, .9m high and 1.1m wide, and the N-S passage is 2m long, .9m high and .8m wide.

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. 1301. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 1 August 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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