Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Derrymaclavlode, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrymaclavlode
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98580, -9.27744
- SMR number
- KE076-013----
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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 pasture, on a knoll surrounded by bog in the valley of the Clydagh River. In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O'Connell described an opening '2 feet 6 inches square' [0.76m square], flanked by two stones, which led into a stone-built chamber '14ft [4.27m]...4ft [1.22m] wide & 3 ft 6 in [1.06m] high' here (SMR file). A series of grass-covered depressions, extending for a distance of c. 11m ENE-WSW, mark the location of this souterrain. Openings in the bases of two of the depressions (D c. 0.8m) reveal stone slabs, some of which are displaced, probably roof lintels of the souterrain. Another depression with an opening (diam. 0.9m; D 0.75m), 4m to the SSW, suggests that the souterrain extends in that direction. (Waddell 1970, 17)
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.