Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Doire Fhionáin Beag, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Fhionáin Beag
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77469, -10.12688
- SMR number
- KE106-049001-
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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 opening to a souterrain (KE106-049001-) is located in the bank of the caher at S. This measures .75m x .65m, and gives access to a lintelled passage with sides of earth which extends N for a distance of 3.3m; this is 1.15m high and .9m wide. Close to the entrance a vertically disposed slab, wedged between two roofing lintels, hangs down into the passage. At the W side of the N end of the passage is a short tunnelled creepway, .7m wide by .4m high, which leads into a large earth-tunnelled sub-rectangular chamber. Another small, tunnelled creepway was noted on the W side of this chamber, but access to it was not possible due to flooding.
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. 572. 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.