Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Bun An Doirín, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bun An Doirín
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.89083, -10.06670
- SMR number
- KE089-024----
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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
This souterrain, not marked on the OS maps, is located in a forestry plantation on the E side of the Cummeranearla stream, NE of the Coomduff ridge. Access to it is gained through a lintelled ope with inclining sides, .75m high and .65m wide at base, which leads into the W end of a rectangular chamber. This is 3.45m long, 1.6m wide, and up to 1.35m high. Its regularly coursed, drystone-built walls corbel towards the roofing lintels. The N side-wall curves outwards slightly. The entrance to a creepway, .33m x .55m, is located in the S wall close to the chamber’s SE angle. The creepway is c. 2m long and appears to lead to a second chamber, which is inaccessible.
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. 854. 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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.