Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Muckross, County Kerry, Ireland
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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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 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
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