Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Glengarriff (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glengarriff (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.34996, -8.74909
- SMR number
- CO002-034----
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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
In pasture, on W side of glen. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured raised area (diam. c. 30m) surrounded by fosse on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Heavily overgrown, steep-sided, circular mound surrounded by fosse to S, W and N, with sharp drop down to stream at base of glen on E side. Fosse to S wider than to W and N; enclosed farmyard respects fosse on N side. No measurements possible owing to dense overgrowth.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.