Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kiltoohig, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoohig
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.35095, -8.70860
- SMR number
- CO002-054----
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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 level ground. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured subrectangular bivallate enclosure (c. 70m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE), skirted by field boundary to NW->SE; on 1905 OS 6-inch map as hachured bivallate enclosure oval enclosure, with external fosse hachured N->SE; on 1936 OS 6-inch map banks hachured as scarps and surrounding field boundary (NW->SE) also hachured. Levelled; rise visible in area of site; to SE, depression outside raised area, with external low rise, may be remains of intervening fosse and external bank. Insubstantial field boundary surrounds site from NW->SE, with drain to outside.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.