Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Coolcaum (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcaum (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.30764, -8.71340
- SMR number
- CO007-076----
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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 gentle NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured D-shaped platform (straight side c. 20m N-S; projecting c. 15m to W) with straight side abutting W side of field boundary. According to local information, 'mound' levelled in early 1970s. No visible surface trace of site.
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.