Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cooryvanaheen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooryvanaheen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85558, -10.12794
- SMR number
- KE089-050001-
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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
A number of recently collapsed roofing lintels reveal the presence of a souterrain (KE089-050001-) at this location. A drystone-built passage, aligned ENE-WSW, runs for a distance of 3m. Its interior is largely filled with collapse, and it averages 1m deep and 1m wide. Collapse almost obscures a low lintelled creepway in the end-wall at ENE, which measures .27m high by .54m wide. This leads into a second passage, which runs NNW for a further 3m, as indicated by a number of exposed roofing lintels. A third passage appears to extend from its WSW end, but collapse prevents positive identification.
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. 662. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.