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Souterrain

Muckross, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Muckross, 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
Muckross
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.01447, -9.51043
SMR number
KE074-012----

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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)
  • 1868 · 4. 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

In woodland, just S of a precipice edge, c. 170m to the E of Dundag Point, overlooking Muckross Lake, in Killarney National Park. Two separate sections of a collapsed souterrain are at right angle to each other. A section (L 4.8m; Wth 0.25m; H 0.4m) of a roofless passage (long axis NE-SW), with limestone corbelled walls, is exposed. This passage widens to an oval area (Wth 0.8m) before being truncated by a path at the SW end. The base of the passage is silted up. At right angles, c. 0.5m from the NE end, is the second passage (L 3m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.45m) of similar construction. This passage narrows to a lintelled entrance (L 0.46m; Wth 0.3m; H 0.7m) at the SE end which opens out into an oval corbelled stone-built chamber (H 1m; 1.5m NE-SW; 1.4m NW-SE), roofed with lintels.

See plan by Rose Cleary which has been added to the file and revise this description. U. Egan, 10/08/2007.

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

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

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