Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Killaree,shandrum (carbery East (w.d) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaree,shandrum (carbery East (w.d) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lios an Uisce (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.34155, -8.74202
- SMR number
- CO002-038----
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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 level pasture; townland boundary kinks to respect S bank of enclosure. Heavily overgrown, rectangular area (c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank to S (int. H 2.2m; ext. H 2.65m), W and N (int. H slight rise; ext. H 1.7m), and by scarp to E (H c. 1m to base of fosse); external wide waterlogged fosse (D 1.05m) all around. Berm between fosse and external face of bank on S (Wth 2m) and N sides. Bank highest at all four corners. Causewayed entrance at S end of W side (Wth 2.5m). Interior level, waterlogged and densely overgrown. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 65). Second moated site (14206) lies c. 500m to NW.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.