Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Gorteenatarriff, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenatarriff
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.30273, -8.32344
- SMR number
- CO010-015----
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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 reclaimed pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Square area (40m NNE-SSW; 39m WSW-ENE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.7m) with external fosse (D 0.8m); field boundary skirts fosse on NNW and N sides. Break in bank to S, W and at NE corner; break to NE and W used as access for farm machinery. Fosse flat-bottomed and waterlogged; from SW corner, leat extends S across field. Interior slopes down gently to SSE; barely perceptible rise noted at centre. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 41).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.