Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
An Chathair Bhearnach, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chathair Bhearnach
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85122, -10.12634
- SMR number
- KE098-014001-
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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
An overgrown stony mound, 5.8m in diameter, occupies the SW quadrant of the site's interior. Incorporated into the mound is an upright slab, a large recumbent slab, 2.3m long, and a massive boulder. This feature may represent field clearance debris or may mark the infilled entrance to a souterrain (KE098-014001-) which is locally reputed to exist in the caher.
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. 561. 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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.