Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Tahilla, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tahilla
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 51.82833, -9.82953
- SMR number
- KE100-024----
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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, marked 'Cave' on the second edition of the OS map, is located in rough pasture on the NW side of Coongar Harbour. Its lintelled entrance faces S and measures .9m x .3m. It gives access to a drystone-built passage which is aligned N-S and measures c. 3m long and 1.1m wide. Its side-walls are crudely built and much collapsed. One of its roofing slabs has collapsed and blocks its inner end. A small group of boulders on the surface, 4m NW of the entrance, may indicate an extension of the souterrain in this direction.
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. 904. 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.