Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Meennaraheeny, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meennaraheeny
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.29946, -9.21243
- SMR number
- CO004-040----
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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
Depicted as trapezoidal enclosure (c. 30m NW-SE; max. L c. 25m NE-SW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, immediately to N of quarry. Levelled; scarp forming SW (L c. 22m) and SE (L c. 15m) sides defines level area of interior; N half of interior incorporated into grounds of bungalow. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 81) as fort on summit of small hill on Mr Murphy's land: 'an irregular quadrangle, the sides being 28 yards, 26 yards, 19 yards and 18 yards'.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 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.