Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Glengarriff (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glengarriff (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.34483, -8.74844
- SMR number
- CO002-036----
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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 gentle E-facing slope. Rectangular area (56.5m N-S; 44m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.45m) with external fosse (D 0.7m). Bank highest at NW corner; break (Wth 5m) to N. Fosse shallow to N; stream flows S-N on E side; field boundary skirts outer edge to S. Interior under pasture, sloping down gently to E; some waterlogging in E half; N half appears to be at slightly lower level than S half. Well depicted in area of fosse half way along S side on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Second moated site (CO002-038---) c. 500m to SE.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.