Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Doory (iveragh By., Portmagee Par.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doory (iveragh By., Portmagee Par.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 51.88204, -10.35701
- SMR number
- KE087-045----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This severely disturbed souterrain, marked 'Cave' on the OS maps, is located on a gentle N facing slope overlooking Portmagee Channel. Only a short stretch of a drystone-built passage is extant; it is aligned N-S and measures 1.8m long and .5m wide. It contains a fill of collapsed material, and one lintel, occurring at a depth of .8m below the ground surface, remains in situ. A pile of stone and rubble, semicircular in outline, is located 5m to SW. This may be the remnants of an associated structure or may merely represent field clearance.
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. 873. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.