Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Cooliney, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooliney
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.31372, -8.71509
- SMR number
- CO007-043002-
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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 hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 45m N-S; c. 25m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured rectangular enclosure on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, with N end rounded. According to local information, levelled early 1970s. In low-lying pasture. Some rush growth and waterlogging in area of site to S which may indicate line of infilled fosse. Roughly rectangular enclosure clearly visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R610; May 1977) as soilmark of levelled bank, narrowing to N end. Listed by Barry (1981, 82, no. 23). Ringfort (12351) c. 40m to W.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.