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Moated site

Knockagarry, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Knockagarry, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockagarry
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1936)
Coordinates
52.28612, -8.33863
SMR number
CO010-040001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Rectangular area (54m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m ext. H 1.5m) with external fosse (D 0.7m). Break roughly mid-way along NE, SE, SW and NW banks; bank densely overgrown. Fosse almost totally infilled to SE where farm track constructed; slight causeway across fosse at NW break in bank. Interior slopes down gently to SE; in S quadrant, scarp extends from SW bank c. 15m into interior; almost in line with this scarp but further to NE, 'Souterrain' (13288) marked on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Remains of cultivation ridges cross interior on NW-SE axis. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 54).

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

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 13/1972).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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