Their construction, usually dry-stone walling roofed with large lintels and buried under the earth, made them cool, concealed, and surprisingly durable. Thousands survive across Ireland, most of them unassuming hollows in a field that betray little of what lies beneath.

The souterrain at Scart is recorded as a monument, but the documentary detail that would flesh out its story, its dimensions, its condition, any finds associated with it, has not yet been made publicly available. What can be said is that Kilkenny's landscape holds a dense scatter of early medieval activity, and a souterrain in a quiet townland like Scart fits a familiar pattern: communities farming the same ground for centuries, leaving passages underground long after everything above the surface has vanished.