Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Maine South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maine South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.34687, -8.81568
- SMR number
- CO002-067----
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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, to NW of road extending NE-SW. Depicted on 1936 OS 6-inch map as D-shaped area (straight side c. 25m NE-SW; extending c. 15m to NW) defined by roadside boundary to SE; arc hachured as scarp SW->NE. House built immediately to W of site. Permission to visit site refused by landowner. Low rise visible from roadside. Known locally as site of 'fort'.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.