Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Liscarroll, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscarroll
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Huggard (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26220, -8.80466
- SMR number
- CO016-014001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This earthwork was referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 520-21) under the entry (no. 14335) for Liscarroll Castle (CO016-015001-). The reference to the earthwork in the entry is as follows:
'Rectangular area (c. 150m N-S; c. 165m E-W) adjoining N side of curtain wall marked 'Hugard' on 1937 OS 6-inch map; defined by hachured fosse to E, drain to N and field fence 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.