Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tunnel
Releagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Releagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tunnel
- Coordinates
- 51.78537, -9.58701
- SMR number
- KE110-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A rock-cut road tunnel (Wth 5.8m; H 3.7m; L c. 170m) on the GlengarriffKenmare road. This tunnel was constructed in the 1830s. Three shorter tunnels (KE110-008----, KE110-009----) are to the NW.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Tunnelunder 1 mi
- Tunnelunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.