Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ankail, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ankail
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.83344, -9.83762
- SMR number
- KE100-015005-
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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
Souterrain (KE100-015005-): The IFC Schools' Collection records that the graveyard 'is full of subterranean channels'. At N, beside a tomb dated 1890, is a small opening, .4m x .4m, to an inaccessible souterrain. The opening provides a view of an apparently earth-tunnelled passage which extends to W. The entrance to a creepway is visible in the S wall of the passage.
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. 924. 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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.